File contains three copies of the paper "Patriotic Entertainments and National Identity in Toronto in the Boer War and World War I" presented at the International Symposium on Popular Entertainment as a reflection of national identity. The Conference was held in New York City October 8-12, 1987. The conference was presented by the American Society for Theatre Research, the Society of Dance History Scholars, and the Theatre Library Association in co-operation with the International Federation for Theatre Research. Also in the file is correspondence, registration information, acceptance letter, publication information, a schedule of events, participant list, and conference proceeedings.

Item is a small hand held box camera with Bakelite body, brilliant viewfinder and Kodalite Flash-holder attachment. For 6 x 6 cm exposures on 620 roll film. One of the best selling Brownie cameras ever made, it is a simple easy to use design created by Eastman Kodak employee Arthur H. Crapsey. The original sales price was $5.50 for the camera alone and $7.00 for the flash model.

Item is a pseudo twin lens reflex camera with flashgun attachment. It has a black plastic body with metal faceplate and fittings and was made for use with 127 rollfilm. It has a Dakon lens with a simpler folding finder, as well as an additional sports finder built into the base. Includes a Kodalite Midget Flasholder.

Item is a clear glass tray for developing photographic prints. A removable glass dowel holds the paper down so it remains inmmersed in the chemical solutions. Sold by the E. & H.T. Anthony company in New York.

Item is a brown glass bottle formally containing five pounds of acetic acid for photographic development. Manufactured by the Canadian Kodak Company, Ltd.

An early version of a spectrometer used to calculate the concentration of chemicals by the amount of absorption of light at certain wavelengths.

Item is a photographic enlarger consisting of nine parts; a metal base, two shafts, one bellows/negative holder assembly with red filter, lens assembly, lamp with cord, and three cardbooard negative guides. Cast into the vertical assembly are the words: "Fotolarger, Testrite, N.Y." On the negative holder, there is a metal plate printed with the CSA logo, and "Fotolarger, use #211 lamp 75 W 110-115 V, Testrite Instrument Co., Inc., New York, N. Y. -- made in U.S.A."

Item contains a slide depicting people gathered in Central Park to watch the feeding of the seals

1 photo album, with a burgundy and gold cover. Images focus on telling short stories, specific locations and people. Comes with a couple brochures for a stereoscopic exhibit by James Ricalton that focuses on the world.

Item is the first Mercury model camera created by the Universal Camera Corp. It takes 18 x 24 mm vertical exposures on Universal No. 200 film, a special 35 mm wide film. The camera has a Wollensak Tricor Anastigmat f3.5/35mm and a rotating focal-plane 1/20-1/1000 shutter.

Item is a die-cast metal cine camera with a black finish. It has an interchangeable f5.6 Ilex Univar lens and a collapsible viewfinder. The camcorder uses Univex 30' patented spools of Single-8 film.

Item is a hand-held motion picture camera for filming motion pictures on 8mm film. Includes a 13mm f/2.:3 Kodak Ektanar Lens with aperture selector wheel.

Item is a hand-held metal and leather motion picture camera for filming motion pictures on 16mm film. Includes a 25mm f/2.3 Kodak Ektanon Lens and adjustable viewfinder.

Item consists of a 16mm subminiature camera designed to resmble a cine camera. It has a f6.3 meniscus lens and guillotine shutter with a speed of 1/60 seconds. The camera has an aperture scale from f6.3 to 16, a manually reset frame-counter, and a two-piece sports finder. There is also a tripod socket that doubles as flash synch-contact.

Item is an Ansco Clipper 4.5 x 6 xm rollfilm camera. It is a simple, fixed focus, point and shoot camera with a black body and expandable lens board.

Item is a plastic box style camera for use with 127 roll film film. It is a simple, fixed focus, point and shoot camera with beige and brown body and plastic lens. Includes a hot shoe for AG-1 flash bulbs.

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of church and surrounding area and shoreline. Recto caption, bottom left, white: "(0509-876A-8)(3-16-33-1:30P)(12-2000) RIVERSIDE CHURCH, N.Y. CITY."

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of university campus and surrounding area. Signs across river read: "Palisade Amusement Park, Surf, Bathing," "The National Sugar Refining Co., Jack Frost Sugars." Recto caption, bottom left, in white: "(0305-876A-8)(2-27-33-1:00P)(12-2000) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y."

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of NYC centred on empire state building. Recto caption in white, bottom of image: "(0190-876A-8)(10-15-32-2P)(12-2000) EMPIRE STATE BLDG. N.Y.C."

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of NYC and surrounding bodies of water. Recto caption, bottom left: "(028-876A-8)(1-13-28-2P)(12-2000) LOWER MANHATTAN- NEW YORK CITY."

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of NYC. Recto caption, lower left corner of image area: "(0255-870N-8)(11-23-34-1P)(12-900) LOWER MANHATTAN, N.Y."

Glossy gsp with white border. Side view of a sports car on white studio background. Recto inscription, bottom left, black ink: "2." Verso red ink stamp, top centre: "Please Credit Jaguar Cars Inc. 32 East 57th Street New York 22." Verso inscriptions in green ink- top right: "55/mm-Sept"; centre: cropping marks, 27 1/2 picas"; bottom right: "100 scr. 3inc half." Verso inscriptions in pencil- centre: "23 3/4 R"; bottom right: "$25," "B669."

Glossy gsp, white border. Depicts a car with man and woman standing behind it, outdoors, with a brick wall and trees in the background. Recto caption printed in photograph: "Toronado - A Chevrolet Experiemental Car on Exhibit at General Motors Futurama New York World's Fair." Verso crop lines and inscriptions in pencil. Vero top right: "55/mm-July"; centre: "20 picas"; bottom right: "1186," "36.3," "$15."

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of tomb and surrounding park and shoreline. Recto caption, bottom left, white: "(0504-878A-8)(2-27-33-1:00P)(12-3000) GRANT'S TOMB, N.Y. CITY, N.Y."

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of NYC, coast and water. Recto caption, bottom of image: "(0190-876A-8)(10-15-32-2P)(2-2000) MIDTOWN NEW YORK"

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of NYC. Signage on buildings reads: "Macy's," "Gimbel's," "Baltman and Co.," "Park Central Hotel." Recto caption in white at bottom of image: "(0506-876A-8)(3-16-33-1:30P)(12-2000) MIDTOWN NEW YORK CITY, N.Y."

Item is an albumen print mounted on cabinet card. Depicts man standing in front of store, which is selling lamps, baskets, pots, etc. Sign on building reads "D.G. Paige 971" Verso inscriptions, top left: "David Paige in business in New York," "$9.50," "LMMA," "$38.00."

Black cover embossed letters ("Photographs") and image of deer. Bound with black string. Balck pages. Photographs mounted with glue or photo corners.Notations on photograph borders in black ink. Some loose photographs. One or two loose pages.

Dates include: August 1938, Fall 1939, 1941, September 1942, July 1943, summer 1944, 1945, 1956, winter 1947, 1948.

Locations include: Magog, Lac Superior, Quebec; Riverdale Park, Toronto, Ontario; Prince Edward Island; New York; Florida; England;
Themes include: Royal Montreal Regiment in Farnham, family portraits, weddings.

Item is a brown handheld electric view master first manufactured by Swayer's Inc and first introduced at the New York World Fair (1939-1940). Once pressed down the lever on the side of the viewer will rotate the reel one frame at a time once pressed. Unlike previous view masters, this view master comes with a built in back light attached to an electrical cord. Once turned on the back light illuminates transparencies on view. Item is made of plastic and metal. Reel has 7 diametrical, 16 mm colour transparencies of The Atlas of Human Anatomy, Head and Neck.

Illustrated price catalogue of cameras, lenses, tripods, chemicals, etc. produced by the E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. A note on the front gives a name and address of the catalogue editor(?): James C. Cummins, 106 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD.

Opening ceremonies for the B.C. Place stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, which was the largest air-supported domed stadium until May 2010 when it was deflated to be replaced by a retractable roof.

Liberty Weekend was the celebration of the restoration and centennial of the Statue of Liberty in New York City, New York.

Liberty Weekend was the celebration of the restoration and centennial of the Statue of Liberty in New York City, New York.

Illustrated catalogue of various patented cameras and camera equipment available through C.P. Stirn's company, giving descriptions and price lists. Cover design is printed in black ink, shows a woman holding C.P. Stirn's patented vest camera. Various other cameras and slide apparatus are also shown. Back cover advertises a panoramic camera called "The Wonder", producing pictures 18 inches long. The catalogue is a reproduction.

View of construction.

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 portrait of woman in Victorian dress sitting in a chair. Black text below photograph reads, 'Glosser, 827 Broadway.'

A magazine devoted to short stories of fiction, featuring:
The Whisper-Men by Judson P. Philips (Part 1 of 6)
A Very High-Hat Mob by Edgar Franklin
Long Shot by Richard Sale
The Killer Poet (True Story) by Joseph Gollomb
Illustrated Crimes by Stookie Allen
Key Witness by Richard Howells Watkins
The Twenty-Third Corpse by Oscar Schisgall (Part 2 of 3)
Plenty Smooth by Edward Parrish Ware
Death Breaks Even by Herbert Koehl
The Clue of the Shattered Bottle (True Vignette) by James W. Booth
Devil's Luck by Tom Roan
They're Swindling You! (Feature) by Frank Wrentmore
Solving Cipher Secrets (Feature) by M. E. Ohaver
Civil Service Q & A (Feature)
Flashes from Readers

Packaging for Wabash Photolamp Corp. Superflood Photolamp No. 1, empty.

1 package containing a Superflood Photolamp No.1 manufactured by Wabash Photolamp Corporation, a subsidiary of Wabash Appliance Corporation. Superflood Photolamp is used for amateur motion pictures and timed exposures.

Item is a catalogue of photographic products avilable from the Scovill Manufactyuring Company (later ANSCO) along with a brief instructional guide for beginners.

Supply catalogue.

Portrait of man with cane. Inscription in purple type on back reads, 'Henry Glosser, 890 Broadway, New York. Negative preserved.'

Item is a cabinet card portrait of woman. Text below photograph reads, 'Rockwood, 17 Union Square (West) N.Y.' Text on back of card reads, 'Rockwood Photographer 17 Union Square (west) N.Y.'

File contains a newspaper article about the High School of Performing Arts in New York, New York, and a copy of the Educational Studies and Documents No. 36 "Technical and Vocational Education in the U. S. A" - a bibliographical survey prepared by the United States Office of Education.

Liberty Weekend was the celebration of the restoration and centennial of the Statue of Liberty in New York City, New York.