Camera Flashbulb
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- glass; metal; cardboard
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1288 a-f
- Description
- a-b) pear-shaped clear glass flashbulb with gold metal screw base; filament-filled bulb; blue dot on crown; cardboard circle inserted inside at the base of the filament labelled in green: “WABASH SYLVANIA SUPERFLASH / MADE IN U.S.A.” and in red: “ NO. 3”c-d) square sheet of white paper with black p…
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- Title
- Camera Flashbulb
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- glass; metal; cardboard
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- a-b) pear-shaped clear glass flashbulb with gold metal screw base; filament-filled bulb; blue dot on crown; cardboard circle inserted inside at the base of the filament labelled in green: “WABASH SYLVANIA SUPERFLASH / MADE IN U.S.A.” and in red: “ NO. 3”c-d) square sheet of white paper with black print: “IMPORTANT NOTICE / DO NOT INTERMIX THIS LAMP WITH OTHER SUPERFLASH LAMPS IN SERIES CIRCUITS. / Because of the defense emergency it has been necessary to substitute a new filament for our former “quick break” filament in the No. 3 and No. 3b lamps (...)”e-f) corrugated cardboard package with short sides left open; white background with, on two long sides, the same design printed in green: “SYLVANIA / formerly WABASH” above the image of a flashbulb in between the two words “SUPER / FLASH” printed in red; “No. 3” in red and “FLASHBULB” in green; on another side, printed in green: “THE ONLY FLASHBULB SUPERFLASH [word in red] WITH THE SAFETY-SPOT”; on viewer’s left hand side, in a column: ”THE MOST POWERFUL FLASHBULB MANUFACTURED. ESPECIALLY RECOMMENDED FOR COVERING LARGE AREAS AS IN BANQUET AND BALLROOM PHOTOGRAPHY. FOR BOTH BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOR [sic], AND FOR MULTIPLE FLASH USE. TO GET MAXIMUM EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EXTRA PEAK LIGHT FLASH DURATION, SYNCHRONIZING IS RECOMMENDED AT SPEEDS UP TO 1/100TH SECOND.”; in the middle figures the image of the flashbulb detached in white against a green triangle; on the viewer’s right hand side: “MADE IN U.S.A. / UNDER U.S. PATENTS / 1,989,572 / 2,037,101 / 2,091,601 / 2,115,423 / 2,162,847 / OTHER PATENTS PENDING”; at the bottom, printed in green: “WABASH CORPORATION / A SUBSIDIARY OF / SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS INC./ NEW YORK 18 N.Y.”; on the fourth side: green printed table of flash numbers correspondance to shutter speed, ASA Tungsten, and Weston Tungsten: under the table, inscription in green: “USE ON ANY CURRENT, 3 TO 125 VOLTS / TO FIND F-STOP, DIVIDE FLASH NUMBER BY DISTANCE-IN-FEET BETWEEN FLASHBULB AND SUBJECT. / ANSCO TUNGSTEN - USE WITH UV-16 FILTER. / KODACHROME TYPE A - USE WITH CHROME-FLASH FILTER WRATTEN OF OMAG TYPE. / KODACHROME TYPE B - USE WITH WRATTEN NO. 2A FILTER OR CC SERIES.”
- Subject
- Nicholas Morant
- photography
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1288 a-f
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