Item is a simple box camera designed to mimic the look of a twin lens camera. The topmost "lens" is in fact a brilliant viewfinder, the lens is a "colour corrected" Bohmar Precision lens (74mm) allows no focusing.
Item is a simple, grey Bakelite camera for 6 x 6 cm (2.36" x 2.36") exposures on 620 film. The design includes a fixed focus, single aperture and one shutter speed. There are connection points for a flash unit, and a dimpled metal plate on the front, perhaps intended to mimic the apperance of a selenium light meter.
Item is a simple, red, Bakelite camera for 6 x 6 cm (2.36" x 2.36") exposures on 620 film. The design includes a fixed focus, single aperture and one shutter speed. There are connection points for a flash unit, and a dimpled metal plate on the front, perhaps intended to mimic the apperance of a selenium light meter.
Item is a manual plate changing box-style camera. It holds 12 steel plateholders inside the top door compartment behind the plane of focus. Holders have to be manually inserted into a slot. The camera has an achromatic lens with three diaphragm stops, two viewfinders, an aperture scale from f16 to 45, and a time and instantaneous shutter.
Item consists of a brick-shaped brown plastic camera. It creates 40 24 x 32 mm exposures on 35 mm film in special cassttes. The camera uses a Graf Anastigmat f7/7/40 mm lens with a single-speed shutter that trips by counterclockwise motion on the winding crank.
Item consists of a Bell & Howell 240 motion picture camera. It is in a hard leather case also containing the manual and the case key. The camera uses 16mm film, has automatic exposure control, a 20mm lens, a self threading mechanism, has 32-fott film run and rapid winding crank, a reserve power indicator, and accepts a cable release.
Item consists of a Bell & Howell Two Fifty Two motion picture camera. It takes 8mm film, and has a Bell & Howell Super-Comat 10mm f/2.3 lens. There is a dial on the front of the camera to select aperture, light settings, and black & white or colour. It has a two-toned brown body and a winding knob on the side.
12 oz. glass tube with cork stopper that contained Ingento No.2 toning and fixing powder for all kinds of gelatine printing out papers, now empty with a crack in the glass. Found inside original cardboard packaging with rolled up sheet of instructions and a folded paper with an advertisement for "Titleit", a service provided by Burke & James, Inc. for marking negatives with typed titles.
Item is a cream carte de visite with portrait of a man, (who appears cross-eyed). On verso, in black letterpress (printed sideways), "Hall's/ Photographic Studio,/ 217 WEST MADISON ST,/ CHICAGO."
Blue and green cardboard mailer has a die-cut opening revealing souvenir photographs of Mount Vernon, Va. The mailer is addressed to Miss Lenore Parkinson, c/o Auditor of Disbursements Office, Bell Telephone Co., Elgin Bldg., Toronto, Ont., Canada, Room 902. The mailer is U.S. stamped, and cancelled.
Items are playing cards with a portrait of a woman on one side and photographic prints, of a wide range of subjects from Canada and the United States, on the other
Item consists of a cabinet card of a women with a while dress with a front. Bottom of the card is stamped with the studio logo for Hartley Studio, 309 W. Madison St., Chicago.
File contains stereographs with images on both sides of the card. Images depict various animals, people, and buildings from across the world; by unknown publishers
Item consists of a program for a musical called South Pacific, presented at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (Chicago) attended October 2001. Item includes newspaper clippings of this production.
Item consists of a program for a musical called Pacific Overtures, presented at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago) attended 10 October 2001. Item includes newspaper clippings and a ticket stub of this production.
Item consists of a program for a play called The Visit by Durrenmatt, presented at the Goodman Theatre (Chicago) attended October 2001. Item includes newspaper clippings of this production.
Item consists of a program for a musical called Gauguin the Musical, presented at the Chopin Theatre (Chicago) attended October 2001. Item includes newspaper clippings of this production.
Item consists of a program for a play called Mother Courage and Her Children, by Brecht, presented at Steppenwolf (Chicago) attended October 2001. Item includes newspaper clippings of this production.
Item consists of a program for a play called Corpus Christi, by McNally, presented at Bailiwick Arts Center (Chicago) attended October 2001. Item includes newspaper clippings of this production.
Item consists of a program for an opera called Street Scene, presented by Lyric Opera of Chicago, attended in October 2001. Item includes clippings of this production.
Item consists of a program for a play series for Pride 2003 in Chicago, presented by Bailiwick, and including Explicit Lyrics by Daryl Nitz and Pinafore! by Mark Savage, in July-August 2003. Item includes a newspaper clippings from this production.
Item consists of a program for a play called Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession, adapted by David Schwimmer, in July-August 2003. Item includes a newspaper clipping from this production.
Item consists of a program for a play called A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Shakespeare, at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, on July 26, 2003. Item includes a ticket stub from this production.
Item consists of a program for a musical called Bounce at the Goodman Theatre, in July 2003. Item includes newspaper clippings and brochures from this production. Item is signed by Gavin Creel, with the note "Signed by Gavin Creel October 26 2008 at Diesel in Toronto"
Item consists of a program for a ballet presentation called New Works, presented by Joffrey Ballet Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, attended April 22 2015. Item includes clippings and a ticket stub from this production.
Item consists of a program for a musical called Carousel, presented by the Lyric Opera of Chicago, attended April 23 2015. Item includes clippings and a ticket stub from this production.