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Date
1840 – 1850
Material
wood; glass; metal
Catalogue Number
104.41.0005 a,b
Description
(a) Large dark brown wooden box camera which is constructed so that back half of camera slides into front half to focus and is secured in place by means of a brass thumbscrew into a slot in the base. Large brass lens screwed over aperture hole at centre of front side of wooden box, square glass pla…
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Title
Box Camera
Date
1840 – 1850
Material
wood; glass; metal
Dimensions
25.2 x 24.0 x 42.3 cm
Description
(a) Large dark brown wooden box camera which is constructed so that back half of camera slides into front half to focus and is secured in place by means of a brass thumbscrew into a slot in the base. Large brass lens screwed over aperture hole at centre of front side of wooden box, square glass plate set into wooden frame slides into slot at back of camera. (b) a separate plateholder of the same size has hinged door on back of frame which opens to insert black metal film sheath (Eastman Kodak), and front of frame slides out by pulling on metal ring at top to expose film. Note: wood cracking and separated at joints, chipped at lower front corners with large chunk of wood out of lower right, plateholder cracked across door and on one side of top.
Subject
households
hobbies
photography
J.D. Curren
PW
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.41.0005 a,b
Images
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Date
1840 – 1880
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
105.02.0010
Description
A daguerreotype of a woman, wearing a long dress, standing behing a small table with a man seated beside the table. A large window is in the background. The plate has a painted gold arched border around the picture.
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Title
Daguerreotype
Date
1840 – 1880
Material
metal
Dimensions
6.8 x 5.6 cm
Description
A daguerreotype of a woman, wearing a long dress, standing behing a small table with a man seated beside the table. A large window is in the background. The plate has a painted gold arched border around the picture.
Subject
photography
households
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0010
Images
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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