Item Reference: 006593
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Glass tubes used in a darkroom, some are open on both ends suggesting they were used in a pipette fashion, others would have been used for measuring chemicals. Most are without markings, but one measures in cubic centimetres
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 006592
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Johnson thermometer stirring rod in original cardboard box with a textured finish, inside is the thermometer and instruction and warning pamphlets. The thermometer is housed in a cardboard tube to allow for stirring, though differs from the instructions description of a black plastic mould
Date: c. 1950
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Item Reference: 006591
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Parts of a Johnson developing kit with remnants of a label, with instructions and information on the back. Includes a white plastic funnel, a orange plastic measuring beaker, black plastic developing tray with a lipped rim, and small paper instructional manual for use of unitol. The label is for Johnsons’ product universol which was used as a fixer in the development process, though no other universol products are seen in the kit.
Date: 1960s to early 1970s
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Item Reference: 006588
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ensign ‘The Trident’ film developer, to be used in tandem with a developing dish which would be sold with it, heavy ceramic, to develop rolls of film in a darkroom environment. residue of developing chemicals can be seen along the tool where it was left in the developing chemicals in the dish. Would continue to be produced by. In the No. 1 size, and had previously been manufactured by Butcher and Son before 1926 merger with Ensign. The registered design number was acquired in 1906, which would’ve been when this item was first put to market under the Butcher and Son name.
Date: 1930s
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Item Reference: 001819
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Perrocolor slide binders, box of 25, in original packaging, frames and ring-glass are separate to be joined once the slide is inserted. Manufactured in Switzerland
Date: 1960s
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Item Reference: 001818
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ensign Miniature Optiscope and slide projector set with leather travel case. The Optiscope has a metal exterior, adjustable focus lens, and is electricity-powered with a bulb still inside. Also are, still in their boxes, a heat-resistant transparent glass plate, and a filter for colour protection to be fitted over the focus lens. Also are two slides, depicting a page from a book and a photograph of a woman about to be shot from a canon as published in The Strand magazine 1897
Date: 1930s
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Item Reference: 001817
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Kodak non-slip printing frame, for small vest pocket negatives, manufactured in USA.
Date: 1917
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Item Reference: 001816
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Hinks, Wells, and Co. print cutters, cutting nibs to be attached to pens, for print paper, precision-cutting
Date: 1950s
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Item Reference: 001815
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Unbranded wooden plate holder, with book opening to load the plates and two draw slides to expose plates of different sizes, with the side marked ‘1’ having an attachable reducing frame.
Date: c. 1900
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Item Reference: 001814
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Johnsons ‘Exactum’ combined printer and darkroom lamp, in an original box packaging with an instructional pamphlet, and a sachet of printing masks. It is a varnished wooden box with a chamber for a bulb that acts both as a safelight and exposure, with a knob used to create this exposure.
Date: c. 1949
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Links: Detailing the Exactum as part of ‘Johnsons No. 4 Developing and Printing Outfit’
