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Photography Collections Database
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There are more than five million objects in the Harry Ransom Center's Photography Collection. Many records contain legacy descriptions. A review and update of our records is ongoing.
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Call Number: |
PH-02574 |
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Collection Name: |
Photographic Technology Collection |
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No. of Items: |
700 items |
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Span Dates: |
ca. 1650 forward (bulk, 1850s-1950s) |
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Description: |
The Photographic Technology Collection consists of over 700 items including cameras, camera and darkroom accessories, enlargers, projectors, and other pieces related to the history of photography made by numerous manufactures from the United States, Europe, and Asia. Included are portable camera obscuras, camera lucidas, zoetropes, Kinoras, and stereo viewers. The earliest items include a scioptric ball or "ox-eye" lens, which dates to circa 1650, and a portable camera obscura manufactured by W. & S. Jones (Holborn, England) that dates to circa 1750. |
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Accession No(s): |
3 vintage cameras & 1 light meter: 2015:0030:0001 -- Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20; 2015:0030:0002 -- Nikon Action Touch; 2015:0030:0003 -- Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100; 2015:0030:0004 -- Sangaro Weston Master V light meter w/case. |
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Location(s): |
Special permission required Cameras and equipment Special permission required Cameras and equipment Special permission required Cameras and equipment Special permission required (box of lantern slide crayons 2000:0015:0001) Special permission required (Logan slide box) 1 osb (u) |
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