Item consists of 25 photographs of Peter McCowan, son of the Phototeria inventor David A. McCowan, with various accessories from the booth. These include a portrait of Peter McCowan taken in the Phototeria, a lens, an instruction plate, and a crate that was used to store unexposed photographic discs used in the booth.
Item is an 11 page patent description of a "photographing machine" (the Phototeria) that would create novelty, souvenir photographs on sensitized disks.
Item is a document outlining the patent claims being made by David A. McCowan for the photographing machine (Phototeria) as part of the patent process undertaken in 1929.
Item includes a 6 page document with technical drawings that included the 1929 patent application that David A. McCowan made for the "Photographing Machine" (Phototeria).
Item is a short synopsis of an interview that George Dunbar conducted with Peter McCowan, son of Phototeria creator David A. McCowan, in preparation for a 2006 article on the photobooth.
Item is an article published in the Science and Invention magazine, in 1927. The article details the Photomaton, a photo booth similar to the Phototeria, invented by Anatol N. Josepho, and located at 1659 Broadway, in New York City.