Lantern Slide Box
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- Date
- 1890 – 1930
- Material
- paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1112 a-e
- Description
- Five cardboard boxes, commercial packaging for lantern slides.a,b) Yellow label with black rectangle “ROYAL Lantern Slide Plate MANUFACTURED BY CANADIAN KODAK CO. LIMITED TORONTO CANADA.” with a crest and additional information about the plates and handwritten notes in pencil. The bottom of (b) ha…
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- Title
- Lantern Slide Box
- Date
- 1890 – 1930
- Material
- paper
- Dimensions
- 2.2 (a) x 9.6 (a) x 11.3 (a) cm
- Description
- Five cardboard boxes, commercial packaging for lantern slides.a,b) Yellow label with black rectangle “ROYAL Lantern Slide Plate MANUFACTURED BY CANADIAN KODAK CO. LIMITED TORONTO CANADA.” with a crest and additional information about the plates and handwritten notes in pencil. The bottom of (b) has “LANDSCAPE” written in pencil.c) Blue-green label on black box. No bottom. The label reads “THE STANDARD Lantern Slide Plates MANUFACTURED BY EASTMAN KODAK CO. ROCHESTER, N.Y. SUCCESSOR TO STANDARD DRY PLATE CO.” There is a paper label on one end “1 DOZ. STANDARD SLOW LANTERN SLIDE PLATES 31/4 X 4.”d) Black box with navy and yellow label “ELLIOTT & SONS LTD. LANTERN TRANSPARENCEY BARNET PLATE FOR WARM OR COLD TONES INSTRUCTIONS ENCLOSED WORKS, BARNET, HERTS.” The box top and bottom are held together with a white cotton twill tie (added by WMCR archives).e) Grey box top (no bottom) with white and blue label “DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE IMPERIAL (“SPECIAL”) LANTERN PLATES...” with instructions for use and “THE IMPERIAL DRY PLATE Co., Ltd., CRICKLEWOOD, LONDON, N.W.”
- Subject
- photography
- Malcolm Geddes
- mountaineering
- Credit
- Gift of Malcolm Darroch, North Vancouver, 1993
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1112 a-e
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