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Date
1940 – 1980
Material
leather; wood; metal; plastic; fabric; glass; paper
Catalogue Number
104.41.0090 a-j
Description
Black hard-sided travel case with a hinged lid, handle, and carry strap. Metal caps on all the corners and reinforcing along all the edges. Three clasps on the lid, the centre one has a keyhole, no key. The handle on the lid may have been compressed paper or leather, but has been wrapped in black e…
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Title
Camera Case
Date
1940 – 1980
Material
leather; wood; metal; plastic; fabric; glass; paper
Dimensions
32.5 x 17.0 x 40.2 cm
Description
Black hard-sided travel case with a hinged lid, handle, and carry strap. Metal caps on all the corners and reinforcing along all the edges. Three clasps on the lid, the centre one has a keyhole, no key. The handle on the lid may have been compressed paper or leather, but has been wrapped in black electrical tape so only the original metal loops and brackets remain. The carry strap attaches to both short sides with metal clips and is made of brown leather - the strap has a buckle that is undone so the two halves hang separately at the sides. Throughout the exterior are various travel stickers and labels, mostly torn.The interior of the case is lined with black paper and the bulk of the body is comprised of a particleboard insert separated into three compartments that sits on braces near the bottom, creating a hidden compartment underneath.Contents of the box include various camera accessories and equipment, as well as a collection of manuals for various film exposures. Includes a light reflector in a white bag with blue edges, a flash mount in a handmade red bag and the flash mount’s cords in a different dark red velvet bag (also in that bag are two extended triggers), a “Rolleflex” lens in a brown leather pouch inside a purple Crown Royal bag, eight manuals in a white “Canadian National Hotels” bag, two different sized yellow filters in clear plastic cases, and in a square cardboard box are two screws, a grey cable, a square lens and a 250 mm focuser, and a lens block.
Subject
Nicholas Morant
photography
camera equipment
camera accessories
Credit
Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
Catalogue Number
104.41.0090 a-j
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Date
1940 – 1980
Material
leather; wood; metal; plastic; paper; glass
Catalogue Number
104.41.0091 a-j
Description
Hard-sided black travel case with a hinged lid used to carry a folding Deardolff camera and its accessories. The case has metal caps on all the corners and reinforcing along all edges, there are also wooden runners along the bottom. On both short sides are metal loops attached to the box with short…
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Title
Camera Case
Date
1940 – 1980
Material
leather; wood; metal; plastic; paper; glass
Dimensions
34.5 x 8.2 x 41.4 cm
Description
Hard-sided black travel case with a hinged lid used to carry a folding Deardolff camera and its accessories. The case has metal caps on all the corners and reinforcing along all edges, there are also wooden runners along the bottom. On both short sides are metal loops attached to the box with short leather bits that most likely were for a strap, missing. On the lid is a leather handle attached with the same metal loop-leather bit attachment - handing from those metal loops are two different travel tags with Morant’s name and title with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Various colourful travel labels and stickers are visible throughout the exterior, mostly faded and torn. The interior of the main body of the case is lined with red velvet and is divided into four compartments. One compartment has braces to hold up a small wooden box insert.The camera is a Deardorff 5x7 wooden camera that folds open to show leather bellows at least 31cm long. Also in the case are 13 separate plastic “Lisco Regal 5x7 Cut Film Holders,” a green plastic folder that may have been for a pocket calendar (“1970 DEUTSCHE ZENTRALE” is stamped in gold on the front) filled with various lens and exposures manuals, two yellow “Kodak WRATTEN FILTER” boxes - one has a red filter and the other has two pale filters - and in a wooden box is a small circular magnifying glass that folds out of a blue leather sleeve on a long black cord, a typed “PACKSACK CHECKLIST 5x7” mounted on paper in a plastic sleeve, and a small rectangular mirror in a blue plastic sleeve. There is also a narrow rectangular box with a small leather tab at the top.
Subject
Nicholas Morant
photography
Deardorff camera
camera equipment
Credit
Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
Catalogue Number
104.41.0091 a-j
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Date
1940 – 1970
Material
leather; fabric; metal; glass; plastic; paper
Catalogue Number
104.41.0094 a-g
Description
Black leather hard-sided travel case with wooden runners along the bottom, brackets for a strap on both short sides, a hard leather/wooden handle on the lid (attached with metal loops), and a hinged lid with three clasps - the centre one of which has a keyhole. The exterior of the case has several …
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Title
Camera Case
Date
1940 – 1970
Material
leather; fabric; metal; glass; plastic; paper
Dimensions
31.8 x 24.9 x 42.8 cm
Description
Black leather hard-sided travel case with wooden runners along the bottom, brackets for a strap on both short sides, a hard leather/wooden handle on the lid (attached with metal loops), and a hinged lid with three clasps - the centre one of which has a keyhole. The exterior of the case has several torn and scuffed travel labels and stickers, as well as various paper travel tags attached to the lid handle and side brackets with pieces of string. The interior of the case is divided into five separate compartments and is lined in purple velvet - the interior of the lid is also divided into two velvet-lined compartments held closed with hinged doors and leather tabs/snaps. The contents of the case have been divided into six categories:b : camera and alternate lenses. Includes a black and silver Graflex Speed camera with a lens mounted on rails that slides forward and back with soft leather bellows and a viewfinder on top and a leather handle on one side. There are also two alternate regular lenses (one in a blue cardboard box with “SCHNEIDER OPTIK KREUZNACH” embossed in silver on the lid, and the other in a red velvet bag) and an expandable bellows lens with a yellow-tinted lens. Also included is a metal gauge used to determine the camera’s F stop that mounts to the top of the camera, housed in a red box with “LEITZ Germany Entfernungsmesser ‘Fokos’” embossed in gold on the lid. c : flash accessories. Includes two shiny silver lens cones (one of which is housed in a black fabric bag), two different handles - one of which is possibly an extender - housed in separate blue corduroy bags, two bulb mounts that attach the handles to the cones/bulbs (one made of black plastic and the other of black and grey metal) housed in a leopard-print fabric bag, a collection of cords and plugs used to attach the flash to the camera (one of which is housed in a small dark blue velvet bag), and three flashbulbs - two of which are clear but different sizes and the third is blue. d : various filters. Includes a total of 18 different filters, usually yellow, as well as four alternate view finders. All lenses are housed in containers, including black and yellow plastic Kodak cases, a red metal first-aid kit tin, and brown leather pouches that snap closed. Six filters and a short black spiral cord is housed in a small black leather box with a lid that snaps closed.e : slide magazines. Two black Graflex slide magazines to hold 4x5 negatives, as well as an extra magazine back (with a leather strap and snap) in a paper sleeve.f : various manuals. Manuals for various camera equipment/camera settings, some of which were tucked into a brown leather envelope. g : miscellaneous tools. Includes a brown leather pouch that contains a small pocket mirror (in a decorative leather sleeve embossed with gold), nail clippers, and tweezers, a block of wood with a small hole in the centre and “Triple Camera Mount Accessory. Spacer for WA Lense” typed on a sticker on the side painted white, two metal hoops that are possibly also spacers (one of which is adhered to a circular piece of paper), various screws, two small screwdrivers with yellow handles, a yellow plastic pouch with five tiny screwdrivers, and a ballpoint pen.
Subject
Nicholas Morant
photograph
camera equipment
lenses
Canadian Pacific Railway
Credit
Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
Catalogue Number
104.41.0094 a-g
Images
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