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red invitation for Lithuanian Communist Party 60th anniversary celebration

Item consists of a red card with image of Lenin in black, as well as black Russian text. Interior bears Lithuanian and Russian text and signatures. Exterior reads: Invitation. It is address to Mr. Comrade H. Puskunigiui. Interior reads: "The Communist Party of Lithuania Vilnius City Committee and Municipal People's Deputies Executive Committee invites you to attend a solemn ceremonial for the Soviet government foundation in Lithuania and the Lithuanian Communist Party 60th anniversary, which will be held on the 15th of December 1978 in Lenin Square. It starts at 11am." The invitation was issued and signed by Agricultural Construction Design Institute Director B. Rilys, party secretary A. Loda, local trade union chair J. Girdzius and Komsomol secretary A. Liksa.

blue stamp albums with Ukrainian and Russian language stamps

blue, cloth-bound, hard cover albums with thick cardboard pages. Cover bears image of rocket and stamp perforated edge and reads: stamps. The pages include horizontal plastic strips to hold postage stamps in place on the pages. Each page is covered with interleaving tissue. Each album contains at least fifty Soviet postage stamps, many bearing the image of Lenin. Some depict the Ukrainian SSR.

[official Lithuanian cards, addressed to Mr. Comrade H. Puskunigiui]

Item consists of red note cards with graphic depiction of Lenin's face on cover and Lithuanian text within. One copy has the years 1917-1977 written on the cover, but the others do not. They are addressed to Mr. Comrade H. Puskunigiui. The copy with the years 1917-1977 congratulates him and his staff on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. Another card congratulates him and his staff on the occasion of the 59th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. Another card is an invitation to a formal sitting dedicated to the USSR State Construction Committee and construction and building materials industry workers' unions of the Central Committee of Red Flag. It was to be held at the Agricultural Construction Design Institute's Institute Hall on March 5 at 3pm.. The cards are issued and signed by Agricultural Construction Design Institute Director B. Rilys, party secretary A. Loda, local trade union chair J. Girdzius, Komsomol secretary A. Liksa.

[map of england]

glass-covered slide with silver paper mat and red tape on edges. Depicts a graphic of a map of england which shows major city centres. The cities are labeled and the slide contains title "England." Recto inscription on white label, upper right: "2."

[lower cloister interior, copy]

Matte print on crosshatched/textured paper, ounted on grey paper, mounted on larger thick brown card. Copy from same negative as 2008.001.612. Depicts the interior of a building, perhaps a lower level, with stone walls, arched window openings, and arched ceilings. A wooden stircase is seen in the background. no inscriptions.

[Wienhausen, church interior]

matte gsp mounted on white paper, mounted on yellow-brown mottled card. Depicts the interior of a church with intricate murals and decorations. There is an arched door visible in the middle and a staircase leading up on the right. Verso inscription, top centre, pencil, reads: "Wienhausen, Aufgary Normenchar" (?)

[Stockholm cityscape]

Matte gsp with no borders. Depicts a city landscape centred on a large building, which has signs reading, "Margaretaskolen," "Hotell Stockholm," "Aftonbladet," "SAS," "GULF," and "British European Airways." No inscriptions.

[Servant with tea service]

Item is a photograph adhered to cream-coloured card with gold letterpress. Text at bottom reads "L. L. Christmas/ 104 STOKE NEWINGTON Rd. N/ (OPPOSITE PRINCE GEORGE Rd.)". Photograph is of a maid holding a tray with a teacup and pots of cream and sugar. Studio backdrop with palm fronds. On verso of card, decorative gold stamp with floral motif and the photographer's name and address repeated, with the additional information: "Alexandra Studios" and "NEGATIVES KEPT EXTRA COPIES CAN ALWAYS/ BE HAD BY SENDING NAME."

Christmas, Lea Latimer

[Portrait of woman in feathered hat]

Item is a pale yellow cabinet card with portrait of a woman in a flower patterened coat and high collar, gloves and feathered hat, leaning against a stone wall with potted plants. On verso, the motto and arms for the city of Aberdeen (showing three castles, two leapords and the motto "Bon Accord") followed by the photographer's stamp in black, "ARTIST/ &/ PHOTOGRAPHER/ W. Carey,/ 35 & 37 BACK WYND,/ ABERDEEN./ Pictures of every description,/ Copied, enlarged and finished in Oil,/ Water, or Crayon./ George Mason & Co."

W. Garey

[Portrait of Cressie & Billy Leonard]

Item is a publicity photograph of two men in tuxedos and top hats holding canes. Identified to be Cressie Leonard (1887-unknown) and Billy Leonard (1891-1974), both Irish-born English variety theatre entertainers, musical comedy actors and singers. Here they are photographed for the 1916 and 1917 touring revue, "A la Carte".

Dobson Studios

[Portrait of Canadian WWI army officer in uniform]

Item is a cream coloured bi-fold card (3 flaps) with an embossed ribbon on the front flap at lower right. Inside, a vignetted photograph of a man in Canadian army uniform, with a badge on his right shoulder labeled "Toronto". The back of the photograph is stamped "HALKSWORTH WHEELER/ 109A SANDGATE ROAD./ FOLKESTONE". This is handwritten on the front of the photograph, and the date August 1917 is written on the card.

Wheeler, Halksworth

[MacBeth witches]

Item is a carte de visite photograph of women dressed as witches stirring a cauldron from Shakespeare's MacBeth. Photographer's stamp on verso reads: "Wm. REEVIE / PHOTOGRAPHER, / BALLATER."

Reevie, William

[Imperial Germany portraits]

This glass lantern slide is representative of personas from Imperial Militaria Germany (1871-1918). It has four portraits of men, they have been identified as Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Frederick III (Emperor in 1888 for 99 days, successor to William I and predecessor of William II), Helmuth von Meltke the Elder (Chief of Staff of the Prussian Army from 1822-1888) and Otto von Bismarck (Chancellor from 1871-1890). In the portrait of Frederick III, he is wearing the Order of the Black Eagle, which means he was Emperor in this picture. Since Frederick III only ruled in 1888, and the other three were either still in power or just retiring, we have tentatively dated the piece for after 1888. This year refers to the Year of Three Emperors, because it was the year that William I died, the year Frederick III ruled and died, and that William II took over as Emperor. The images are in colour, potentially colour halftone process on a glass slide. Just one pane of glass, printed on verso.

[German street scene] (sub-series 2)

matte gsp mounted on thin white paper, mounted on larger green mottled card. Depicts a brick-paved street in a town. The street is lined with stores with German signs, and a church steeple can be seen over the roofs. Signs read: "farberei," Ludwig Brummer," Gasthaus Goldemen Lowen Hermann Puls." No inscriptions.

Zeiss Ikon Tenax I

Item is a simple camera for 50 exposures ( 24x24mm ) on regular 35mm film . It was built 1939 t0 1941, the low serial No indicates a small production of this camera , possibly because of the war.
The foldable lever transported the film and cocked the Compur shutter.
The lens is a non exchangeable Zeiss Novar Anastigmat 1:3.5 with a focal length of 35mm. The Viewfinder is a simple Newton finder , it is folded onto the body Focusing by front lens in a simple helical mounting.

Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta (A) 531

Item is a high quality black leather-covered folding roll film camera, with a rangefinder of the rotating wedge type, gear coupled to front cell focusing lens. This camera has a chrome top. It has the normal lens - a Tessar 75 mm 1:3.5. and a Synchrop Compur shutter.

Zeiss Ikon Maximar B 207/7

Item is a high quality folding plate camera with a drop bed style, double extension bellows, rise and fall, plus shift front movements. It came with a brilliant view-finder housing a built in spirit finder and a wire frame finder. The Maximar B 207/7 accommodated a 9 x 12cm size dry plate and was available only in black. It came with a 135/4.5 Tessar in Compur lens (S# 1889973).

Zeiss Ikon Ikoflex III, demonstration model

Item is the last pre-war Ikoflex model, released in June of 1939 and made in Stuttgart, Germany. For 6 x 6 cm exposures on 120 format roll film. The focusing screen has a condenser, magnifier for focusing and an “albada” finder (sports finder) in the hood. The viewing lens is an f3.5, 7.5 cm Teronar Anastigmat, lower lens is a Triotar f 3.5, 7.5 cm, Carl Zeiss Jena. Shutter is a Zeiss Ikon Compur Rapid, with speeds of 1 - 1/400 second and Bulb. Model number "853/16" is stamped under the lens assembly. Inside the viewfinder is a chart for seasonal exposure times.

Zeiss Ikon Deckrullo-Nettel

Item is a Zeiss Ikon Deckrullo-Nettel folding/bellows plate camera. The Deckrullo-Nettel is an improved model of the Nettel. The strut mechanism is characteristic of Nettel, and gives variable bellows extension for focusing, with a focus knob on the left side. The end of one of the struts appears as the pointer on a focus scale, in a slot in the top of the body. The camera also has a wire frame finder.

Zeiss Ikon Contina-matic II

Item is a non-folding camera with a coupled selenium meter. Has an uncovered beehive selenium cell on the front. It has a fixed Pantar F2.8 45mm lens.

Zeiss Ikon Contessa-35

Item is a folding 35mm rangefinder camera with built-in dual range and uncoupled exposure meter. Manufactured in the Zeiss Ikon AG factory in Stuttgart, Germany from 1953-1955, this model has a Synchro Compur lens. The model name, "Contessa" is inscribed in gold on the leather door covering, and round rangefinder window directly above lens. The camera has double exposure protection and the shutter will not fire unless camera has film and is advanced.

Zeiss Ikon Contessa

Item is a 35mm rangefinder camera. The Contessa comes with a four element (coated) Tessar 45mm f2.8 lens (S# 923318) and a 9 speed Synchro Compur + B shutter. A leather case is included.

Zeiss Box Tengor 54/2

Item consists of a box camera, for 5 x 7.5 cm exposures on 127 film. Model has two finder lenses placed horizontally across the top front side of the camera. The camera also has an extended hexagonal front plate around the lens with stops and closeup settings around it. There is a black enamel trim around the front end of the camera and a diamond shaped winding knob at the top right side.

Young man in jester costume

Item is a carte de visite of a young man in a jester costume sitting in a photography studio. Text below photograph reads, 'Camille Rensch, Phot' Text on verso of card reads, 'Camille Rensch Photographe 19 Rue Royale St Honore au premier PARIS' Inscription on verso reads, 'Mon ami Alfred Roe, Garcia William, 8 Mars 1866'

Camille Rensch Photographe

Young man dressed as jester

Item is a carte de visite portrait of a young man dressed as jester. Text below photograph reads, 'Camille Rensch Phot.'. Text on back of card reads, 'Camille Rensch Photographe 19 Rue Royale St. Honore Au premier PARIS'.

Camille Rensch Photographe

Y.M.C.A. Physical Culture Class

Item consists of a photograph of a group of young men in white t-shirts and shorts, with one man wearing a dark sweater in the centre. They all have their arms folded across their chests. At the bottom, a wooden sign is laid out with the words "W.M.C.A. PHYSICAL CULTURE CLASS". Photograph is mounted on brown card with the text embossed at the lower right, "Johnston/ WICK AND THURSO".

Alexander and James Johnston

Wyndham's Theatre programs

File consists of theatre programs published by Whyndham's Theatre. Productions include: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Boy Friend, A Taste of Honey, Abelard and Heloise.

World War 2 recovery centre and family photography album with stereoscopic viewer

Item is a cardboard boxed filled with 54 stereoscopic images. Item comes with one handheld, compact, metal accordion fold black stereoscope. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the sliding card holder and adjusted to fit the user's vision until the two images overlap to mimic a three-dimensional effect. Images are vernacular photographs sent to A.P. Manners Ltd. to develop, print, and then return images to photographers. Written by previous owners on a small yellow post-it-note : recoverying from W.W. II English Military Sectary.

Written on box : A.P. Manners Ltd. Finest Quality Developing, Printing, Enlarging and 35 mm Process In Services Photographic and Cine Specialists, 11 Westover Road, Bournemouth.

Wooden plaque of Lenin in high contrast

shiny lacquered wood plaque bearing a portrait of Lenin created by different coloured wood stains. His face is rendered in high contrast as if there was a strong light shining from the left hand side. Label afixed to back. It was produced in Lutsk, Ukraine. It is named "Portrait of V. I. Lenin."

Wooden plaque of Lenin

shiny laquered wooden plaque bearing a profile portrait of Lenin wearing a captain's hat and jacket with red bow. The image is created with different colours of stain on the wood surface. Printed label adhered to back of plaque. It was produced in Lutsk, Ukraine. It is named "Portrait of V. I. Lenin."

Woman raising right arm in costume

Item is a cabinet card photograph of a character from Wagner's opera Lohengrin. Mostly illegible script written on photograph, except, '1894'. Text below photograph reads, 'Lohengrin, Bayreuther Buhrenfest - Spiel'. Text on verso reads, 'W. Hoffert, Hof Photograph. Breslau, Hamburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Magdeburg, Dresden, Hannover. Photographische Kartenfabrik v. Paul Suss, Dresden.

W. Hoffert Hof Photograph

Willi A Kiss

Item is a cabinet card portrait of baby. Brown text below photograph reads, 'Copyright Barraud 263 Oxford St London A few doors West of The Circus'. Brown text on back of card reads, 'Mr. Barraud 263, Oxford St. W (regent circus) London. Mr. Barraud bestows particular attention on enlargements, miniatures and reproductions which can be made from any photograph. All negatives registered and carefully preserved. Mr. Barraud's studios are approached by a lift constructed on the most approved patents which will be found a great advantage to sitters as no stairs have to be ascended, childrens portraits the same prices as other sitters.' Inscription in ink on back of card reads, Willi a Kiss, from Phyllis Margaret Dickson'.

Barraud Studio

Wienhausen Unterer Kreuzgang

Matte print mounted on thin white paper, which is mounted on mottled light brown card. Image depicts the interior of a building, lower level, with stone walls, arched window openings, and arched ceilings. A wooden staircase is seen in the background. Verso inscription in pencil, upper centre: 'Wienhausen Unterer Kreuzgary." (Wienhausen, lower cloister)

Weston Master Universal Exposure Meter

Item is a Weston Master Universal Exposure Meter. Manufactured by Sangamo Weston Ltd. & Ilford Limited at the Enfield factory in Middlesex, England. Commonly referred to as Weston Master I. It is the first Weston meter to be produced in an upright format.

Hitchens, Derek, Mr.

Walerian Borowczyk interview

File contains a hand-transcribed, copy of an interview conducted with Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk by Toronto Psychiatrist Dr. Frank Sommers, for Sommers' project "The Mind of the Film Director. Also included is a French language promotional booklet for the 1974 film Contes Immoraux (Immoral Tales) that includes film stills, synopsis, and and interview with the director.

Sommers, Frank

WWII family album

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.

Voigtländer Vito BL

Item consists of a Voigtländer Vito BL 35mm viewfinder camera. It has a Voigtländer Color-Skopar 1:3.5/50mm lens and a Prontor-SVS leaf shutter. It is similar to the Vito B, but features a built-in exposure meter.

Voigtlander Vito II

Item is a 35 mm folding camera that has an accessory shoe attached. Comes with "color Skopar" F3.5/50 mm lens and a Prontor-S shutter.

Voigtlander Brilliant

Item is a mock twin lens reflex camera with Bakelite body and metal fittings, for use with 120 roll film. Designed to mimic the look of a twin lens camera, the topmost "lens" is in fact a brilliant viewfinder used only to frame the view and not to focus.

Voigtlander Bessy AK

Item is a camera for use with 126 film. Includes a swing out AG1 flash reflector in body, automatic parallax correction. Three focusing symbols are visible in finder. In autoflash mode distance coupled to aperture. Prontor-matic V 30-125. Automatic shutter priority mode with selenium cell. With colour lanthar f.28-38mm.

Lens: Voigtlander Lanthar f.8/38mm
Shutter: prontor-matic

Voigtlander Bessa II

Item is a folding camera, designed as an updated version of Bessa RF (1936), with housing for coupled rangefinder in chrome instead of black. Synchro-Compur 1/500 shutter. Heliar f3.5.105 lens. 6 x 9 cm prints on 120 roll film.

View-Master Stereoscope with stereo reels

Item consists of a View-Master Stereoscope manufactured by Sawyers Inc., with 18 reels, and a View-Master Reel List catalogue of available View-Master reels, dated September, 1951.

Sawyers first introduced the Stereoscope at the New York World Fair (1939-1940). The 3D viewer is made of plastic and metal. Reel shows 7 diametrical, 16 mm kodachrome transparencies of famous global landmarks, characters from popular culture, major events etc. The push-down lever on the side of the viewer will rotate the reel one frame at a time. Reels are interchangeable and come with a variety of themes often ordered through a View-Master catalogue.

Reels included are as follows:

111 Redwood Highway 1 California USA
186 Palm Springs California USA
188 Santa Barbara California USA
189 San Juan Capistrano Mission California USA
219 Holywood California USA
221 Los Angeles California USA
222 Tournament of Roses Pasadena California, USA
220 Homes of Movie Stars Hollywood California USA
289 Desert Cactus in Bloom
405-407 The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (3 reels, with story booklet)
710 Firefighters in Action (with story booklet)
800 Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd the Hunter
810 Tom and Jerry in the Cat Trapper
945 Roy Rogers King of the Cowboys & "Trigger"
950 Gene Autrey and His Wonder Horse "Champion"
960 Cisco Kid (Duncan Renaldo) and Pancho (Leo Carrillo)
Sam 1 - Adventure of Sam Sawyer: Sam Flies to the Moon (with story booklet)

View of Lugano, Switzerland

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image framed in black and gold. Handwritten in lack ink on a white sticker on the glass "View of Lugano from Hotel du Parc, Swiss" but Swiss is crossed off in pencil and "Italy" is written overtop. Sticker on wood reads "Lugano Switz" and on wood in pencil "Swiss." On slide itself "7493 Vue du Lugano, prise de l'Hotel du Parc (Suisse)." Image of statue, mountains, seaside town. Lugano in Switzerland borders Italy which may be why Swiss is scratched off and Italy is written overtop.

Vatican Obelisk

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Image is framed in black and gold. Remains of a sticker on the wood frame. Handwritten in ink on a sticker on the glass "282 St. Pierre Rome" in french. Image is of the Saint Peter's Square and Basilica with the Vatican Obelisk in the Vatican City.

Various Agfa filters

Item consists of three Agfa Lichfilters (light filters). Each filter is individuall packaged in a box. Item includes an "Agfa Mittleres Gelbfilter Nr. 3," a "Nr. 20 - Farbenfilter - 60/60mm," and a "Nr. 3 - Gelbfilter - 75/75mm."

Agfa Ansco Co.

UK and France album

Brown fabric cover with gold embossing. Gold finish on edges of pages. Spine and bindings missing. White pages with notations in pencil. Gold initials "MRTB" on title page. Photographs mounted with glue.

Other items mounted to pages include postcards, newspaper clippings about Stonehenge and other rock monuments,
Loose items include "Bain's Map of the Country of Nairn" (partly torn).

Sites and locations include: Roman Arena; Nice, France; Nairn River; Brodie Castle; Inshoch Castle; Pict and Scot War Stone; Queen's Head in Burley.

Themes include: scenic views and vistas, landscapes, some architecture images of churches and castles, harburfronts.

Two girls in traditional dress

Item is a photograph of two girls in traditional dress. Text beneath photograph reads, 'Delintraz Phot. Rue Duphot, 9.' Text on back of card reads, '9, Rue Duphot, 9 Cidevant No 15, en face l'Eg de la Madeleine a l'Entree du Boulevart. Delintraz Photographe Specialite de reproductions et tous genres. PARIS'

Delintraz Photographe

Triple Print colour film

Unopened boxes of Famous Brand Triple Print Colour Film, 620 rolls. Boxes are stamped with use-before dates of Jan and Feb 1975.

Triple Print Film Labs Ltd.

Triple Print colour film

Triple Print Colour Film 126 roll, 12 exposures, in original packaging. One of the boxes has been opened but the film roll is still sealed in plastic envelope and a set of instructions are included in the box. The boxes are stamped with develop-by dates of Jan and Dec 1976.

Triple Print Film Labs Ltd.

Tree Huggers

Mounted image of three men with arms stretched out encircling a big old tree and holding hands. Text in blue ink below photograph reads, 'Korner-Eiche Dallwitz'. Text in blue ink on back of mount reads, 'W Fritsch Neu-Drahowitz bei Karlsbad, Specialist fur Platinbilder u. Vergrosserungen. Die Platten werden fur Nachbestellungen aufbewahrt.'

Toy Magic Lantern

Red lacquered, barrel shaped children's toy magic lantern. Simple model that could be used with a candle. Manufactured by the German toy company 'Gebrüder Bing'. Ignaz Bing and his brother Adolph Bing founded the retail company selling household items in 1863 and began to manufacture their own toys in the late 1870s.

Gebruder Bing

Towards an Interactive Performance Calendar Database

File contains one copy of the paper "Towards and Interactive Performance Calendar Database". This paper is based on Robert Scott's Ph.D thesis that developed a daily theatrical calendar of performances by professional theatre companies in 28 Ontario town and citites between 1914-1967. The paper was presented at the 12th annual World Congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research: New Directions in Theatre Research. The conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden May 29-June 4, 1989.
Also in the file is a copy of the conference proceedings, a history guide for Storkyrkan St. Nicholas' Stockholm Cathedral, and an application for the International Federation for Theatre Research.

Theatrical Space from the Stone Age to the Space Age

File contains 2 copies of the paper "Theatrical Space from the Stone Age to the Space Age" that was presented at the International Conference of Theatre and Television September 1 - 7 Hilversum, The Netherlands. The conference was sponsered by the International Federation for Theatre Research in co-operation with NOS Dutch Broadcasting Corporation. Included with the paper are a CD and slides of photographs referenced in the paper. The paper was later published in the conference proceedings.
Also in the file is correspondence, photographs, souvenir postcards, conference program, and other materials related to the Hilversum conference.

Theatre Royal Haymarket theatre programs

File consists of theatre programs published by Theatre Royal Haymarket. Productions include: The Chalk Garden, Hadrian VII, Waters of the Moon, Hobson's Choice, Crown Matrimonial, Flowreing Cherry, You Never Can Tell, The Merchant of Venice, The Importance of Being Earnest.

The pocket rotoscope stereoscope

Item is a novelty compact collapsible tinplate stereoscope given as a premium from cigarette brands. The cover of the object is built in the shape of a small book. It is detailed with green, gold and yellow floral designs. Once item is unlocked, a viewer with small lenses pops out parallel to a small folding card holder. The lenses slide in and out horizontally and the built in round topped frame move back and forth. Object was built like this to allow the user to focus. Stereoviews are 40 mm. Viewing lenses are 60 mm in focal length. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the card holder and adjusted to fit the user's vision until the two images overlap to mimic a three-dimensional effect.This stereoscope comes with 12 black and white silver gelatin stereographs of Victorian Celebrities.

Written on object : The Pocket Rotoscope The Rotary Photographic Co. Lo. 12 New Union St. London, E.C. Works, West Drayton, Midd With 12 Real Photographic Stereograms Views, Staturary, Celebrities, Children, Comic Scenes, Etc. Patented Ro. No. 442.342.

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