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Historical Photographic Processes Collection
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Late Victorian cabinet card album

Item is a late Victorian cabinet card album on a metal stand, with slots for 54 photographs and a storage drawer. Album cover is celluloid, wood and velvet and features floral and aviary scenes. Pages are illuminated with a gold, printed floral pattern. Cabinet cards have been removed from the album. The drawer contained 4 postcards (see related materials).

Cabinet and CDV album

Album is a Victorian cabinet card and CDV album, manufactured by D.L.R. & Co., containing 25 mounted albumen portrait photographs. Studios are from Melbourne, Australia and Yeovil, Somerset, England.

Grouzelle

Portrait Photo Album

1 brown cardboard photo album, with a smaller album in the back and a metal ring. Meant for containing portraits. Most portraits are of individuals, with a few of groups. Subjects are adults and children.

Portrait Photo Album

1 photo album with a brown fabric spine and black and gold metal covers. It has two hooks to close the album. Meant for containing portraits. Most portraits are of individuals, with a few of pairs. Subjects are adults and children.

Portrait Photo Album

1 photo album with a burgundy cover, with a black border, possibly made of wood. It has two hooks to close the album. Meant for containing portraits. Most portraits are of individuals, with a few of pairs. Subjects are adults and children.

Portrait Photo Album

1 photo album with a burgundy cover possibly made of wood. It has two hooks to close the album. Meant for containing portraits. Most portraits are of individuals, with a few of pairs. Subjects are adults and children.

Portrait Photo Album

1 photo album, with two metal hooks and a black fabric back cover. Meant for containing portraits. Most portraits are of individuals, with a few of pairs or groups. Subjects are adults and children.

Portrait Photo Album

1 photo album, with a gold and black cover. Meant for containing portraits. Most portraits are of individuals, with a few of pairs or groups. Subjects are adults and children, as well as one dog.

Floral Album

1 photo album, with a burgundy and gold cover. Many of the pages on the inside are decorated with colored flowers. Meant for containing portraits. Portraits are mostly of individuals, with a few of pairs or groups, and subjects are adults, children and pets.

Ping Pong Photography Album

1 photo album, with a brown fabric cover that has a maple leaf on it. Bound with a red string. Photographs are mostly of pairs, with a few of individuals or groups, and subjects are children and their parents, to a lesser extent.

Expo 67 Mini Album

Item is a photo album with a blue binding and a mostly blue and red cover. Item contains images of a number of different pavilions at Expo '67 for various countries and organizations, artworks, ceremonies and activities, and provides a short write up in French and English on each.

Tintypes

Series contains examples of tintypes, collected from various sources.

Tintypes, sometimes referred to as ferrotypes or melainotypes, are direct positive images created with sensitized collodion on a metal (iron) surface that has been coated with lacquer or enamel. While the process is similar to the ambrotype in that it is essentially an underexposed negative image, the tintype does not need to be mounted with a dark backing to view the image, as the dark coating creates the positive image.

Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype in oringinal leather case with velvet padding and brass spacer and preserver. Photograph is of a couple with a baby, some blurring can be seen where the baby moved its head during the long expsoure.

Lantern Slides, Ships

Two slides feature two ships: in one slide the boat sails peacefully along the water in Newfoundland, and in the other slide a boat is caught in a storm. In the third slide, a crew is working on either loading or unloading a boat and crew members are busy working.

Lantern Slides, Songs(Words)

Slides feature the words to different songs. Titles are: "S-M-I-L-E," "Love's Old Sweet Song," "The Old Gray Mare," "Rosie O'Grady," "When Irish Eyes are Smiling," "Down by the Old Mill Stream," "School Days," "Long, Long Ago" and "Jingle Bells"

Magic Lantern Slides, Odd Fellows

Slides are titled "Fist Degree" and "Second Degree" and have symbols on them. "First Degree" shows a bow with three arrows, a quiver of arrows and a log with a red ribbon around it. "Second Degree" has a globe, a hand with a heart, an axe, a cross with a snake wrapped around it and a box with a couple statues.

Lantern Slide, Four Portraits

Printed slide depicts four different individuals. The first has gray hair and a blue hat. The second is smoking a pipe and has brown hair. The third is smoking a cigar, has a green hat, brown hair and beard, a gold hoop earring. The fourth is wearing a hat decorated with blue ribbons and a rose, has glasses and brown hair.

Lantern Slide, Boys with Instruments

Printed slide depicts four boys using common household items as musical instruments including a barrel as a drum, garbage can lids as cymbals, a water can as a horn and a stick for the conductor. Boys are wearing hats with feathers, stockings, pants, shirts, shoes and boots of an array of colours and patterns.

Magic Lantern Slide, Four Scenes

First scene of printed slide shows people gathered around a cross, in front of mountains and there is a building nearby, possibly a church. The second shows three figures in a jungle crossing using a downed tree. The third shows a family of three walking towards a building. The fourth shows a city, siting on the water, with mountains in the background.

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