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Photolab envelopes

Packaging for photographs, used by various photolabs or photographic developers to deliver finished prints to the consumer. All used, open and empty.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Portrait of girl with jump rope, on balcony

Item is a white cabinet card with gold border and image a young girl, seated on a window ledge with a jump rope and a small (stuffed or stone?) birl to the left. At bottom of card, in gold letterpress, "VANDYKE & BROWN/ PHOTOGRAPHERS" and at right "31 BOLD ST & 34 CASTLE ST/ LIVERPOOL." On verso, royal seal appears at top with large sideways lettering in centre "Vandyke & Brown". At upper left, "ARTISTE(sic) PHOTOGRAPHERS/ MINIATURE & PORTRAIT PAINTERS." Mid right "31, BOLD STREET/ AND/ 34, CASTLE STREET/ LIVERPOOL." At bottom right, "Negatives kept/ Copies may be had." and at centre "CARTES & CABINET PORTRAITS/ COLOURED TO ORDER."

Vandyke & Brown, Photographers

Portrait of girl playing violin

Grey card with texture. Photography of a girl in short white dress and a bow in her hair playing violin. Art nouveau screen behind her, along with medieval-style x chair. At bottom, embossed in silver, "Edwards & Co" with an image of a royal crown at centre and on the right "STRATFORD/ FOREST GATE/ AND EAST HAM." On verso, in pencil "23 078".

Edwards & Co

Portrait of a woman

Item is a cream card with silver letterpress at bottom edge, "Regent Portraits Ltd., London & Provinces." Photograph is a portrait of a young woman in plain white blouse with her short hair curled forward on either side of her face, and a section pulled up and rolled back on top - a very popular style for the 40s. On verso, "Further copies may always be obtained/ from our local Studio by quoting index/ letter and Negative Number." Handwritten in pencil, "PA61.99.8" and again in letterpress, "OR FROM/ REGENT PORTRAITS Ltd.,/ 30/31 GREAT SUTTON ST.,/ LONDON, E.C. 1."

Regent Portraits Ltd.

Portrait of a man and woman in outdoor coats in front of a landscape backdrop

Item is a photograph with a white border area. Depicts a man and woman wearing heavy overcoats and hats, the woman wearing gloves posed in front of a painted landscape backdrop with trees and leaves. Embossed into photo at lower right, "J. W. Smith,/ SILSDEN." On verso, printed in black ink, "POST CARD/ CORRESPONDENCE/ ADDRESS ONLY".

Portrait of a young man

Item is a photograph of a boy approximately 10 years old wearing a suit jacket, short tie pinned to a plain white shirt and shorts. He sits on the edge of a table. The photo is mounted on a postcard backing with the text "POST CARD" and a line delineating space for "CORRESPONDENCE" on the left and "ADDRESS ONLY" on the right. At the far left, printed sideways, "Hall & Siggers, Keighley." Handwritten in brown ink across the postcard, "December 31/ 1916/ To Cousin Annie & Maurice/ With Love & Best Wishes/ for/ The New Year".

Hall & Siggers

Portrait of a young man

Item is a cream coloured card with vignetted portrait of a young man with a plaid tie. At bottom edge, in blue letterpress, "Williams & Williams PHOTOGRAPHERS." On verso, elaborate lithographed design with woman standing on a globe holding an upside down cornucopia out of which spill circular portraits. The photographer's stamp gives 7 locations in the UK. "Williams & Williams" "67, THE TRIANGLE, BRISTOL/ 53, QUEEN STREET, CARDIFF/ ARCADE STUDIO NEWPORT/ 208a HIGH STREET, SWANSEA/ 90 TAFF ST, PONTYPRIDD/ 56 ELGIN STREET, HEREFORD/ 48 HIGH STREET, SHREWSBURY." At the bottom left, printed "No." and handwritten in pencil beside that, "33023". Text follows, "NEGATIVES ARE/ PRESERVED COPIES/ OR ENGLARGEMENTS CAN/ BE MADE FROM THIS OR ANY/ OTHER PHOTOGRAPH." Also written in pencil at the very bottom, "Dudjer(?)".

Williams & Williams Arcade Studio

Portrait of Sir Henry Norman Rae, hand-painted

Item consists of a painted photograph of a man in light brown trousers and black sac jacket, seated in an upholstered chair at a writing desk. A top hat is upturned on a table to his left. Paint is applied very roughly. At top edge of image, a phrase (illegible) handwritten in black ink. On verso, in pencil, "Mr. Rae/ fit (illegible) oval matt wpa(?)" At top edge, in red ink, "RAE".

Rae, Henry Norman, Sir

[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

Hockley Sole House album

Brown faux snake skin cover, bound with two screws. Brown pages. No notations.Photographs are glued to pages. Majority of pages are empty, no photographs.

Themes: Hockley Sole, group and individual portraits, architecture.
Accompanying material: 2 pages, each with 2 photographic reproductions, appear ripped from magazine or other publication; documentation obtained from the British Library Document Supply Centre about Hockley Sole.

Austin Healey Sprite MKIII (car sub-series)

Print with white border, shows car in studio. Recto caption: "Austin Healey Sprite MKIII, 1098 c.c. engine, 616 h.p. (gross) at 5, 750 r.p.m. New deluxe cockpit. New suspension. Copyright free. Austin press office, Longbridge, Birmingham, Priory 2101. neg. no. 120038." Recto inscriptions include cropping instructions, "55/mm June."

Marion & Co. 5x7 Tailboard Camera

Item is a wood and brass folding field camera, for 4¾" × 6½" (120 × 165) or half-plate exposures on glass plates. Camera bellows are red leather and square cornered. The lens is a J.H. Dallmeyer rectilinear lens, dated 1889, with the serial number 49700.

Marion & Co.

Ensignette No.1

Item is a folding camera for 1 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (3.8 x 5.7 cm ), exposures on Ensign E1 or Eastman Kodak no. 128 size roll-film. The camera has black leather bellows and a waist level brilliant viewfinder. This model, with two medallions on the front plates, was manufactured in 1911 or later (earlier versions had plain front plates).

Ensignette No.2

Item is a black painted brass body folding camera for 3" x 2" exposures on Ensign 2E roll film. The camera has black cloth bellows and a waist level brilliant viewfinder. This model has a brass body and wheel stop aperture dating it from prior to 1920, when the company switched to aluminum.

Baby Hawkeye

Item is a small box camera for 4 x 6.5 cm (1.57" x 2.55") exposures on 127 format roll film. Manufactured in England circa 1936, the camera is an all-metal box with a unidentified lens and a simple Kodak shutter. It has a simple wire viewfinder.

Box Ensign 2 1/4 B

Item consists of a sheet film wooden and cardboard box camera with black leatherette covering, for 3.25" x 2.25" negatives. The camera has a rear opening door for loading and a folding wire frame finder and uses an achromatic meniscus lens with an everset shutter and a periscopic lens in the everset shutter. The camera has dual reflex finders.

Portrait of boy with tennis racket

Item is a cream cabinet card with red letterpress at bottom, "G.A. OLDHAM, COLCHESTER." On verso, graphic design with text, "G.A. OLDHAM/ PHOTOGRAPHER/ AND/ MINIATURE PAINTER/ 11 QUEEN ST./ COLCHESTER/ NEGATIVES KEPT./ COPIES MAY BE HAD BY/ SENDING TO ABOVE ADDRESS./ Marion Imp. Paris, London - Déposé - Copyright." Photograph shows a boy seated on a plush chair with one leg crossed under, holding a tennis racket. Boy is same as pictured in 2005.001.107.

G.A. Oldham Photographer and Miniature Painter

Gravures of England

File consists of 33 black and white prints of various attractions in London including Ludgate Hill and St. Paul's Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, British Museum, Trafalgar Square,, Warwick Castle, etc.

Ilford Contact photographic paper

Item is an envelope of Ilford Photographic Paper, single weight, extra hard, glossy producing 2 1/4 x 2 1/2 inch prints. Originally contained 25 sheets. Package has been opened and used. There are now 2 packages of black foil wrapped papers inside. Label glued to front of package gives retailer as "Kwick Studios Ltd. Photographers, and Photographic Supplies 262 Heathway Dagenham, Essex".

Ilford Limited

Counterpoint at the Comedy Theatre

Item consists of a program for a series of plays under the banner of Counterpoint: Soldier from the wars returning, by David Capton, Barnstable, by James Saunders, and A Night Out, by Harold Pinter. The performance was presented at the Comedy Theatre (UK) in November of 1961.

The National Theatre theatre programs

File consists of 7 theatre programs published by The National Theatre in London. Productions include; Jumpers. The School for Scandal, The Front Page, A Small Family Business, Three Sisters, Mrs. Warren's Profession, A Long Day's Journey Into Night, Tripple Bill, The Idiot, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, A Flea in Her Ear, The Captain of Kopenick, The Cherry Orchard, Amphitryon 38, A Woman Killed with Kindness, MacBeth.

The New Theatre programs

File consists of theatre programs published by the New Theatre in London. Productions include; Under Milk Wood. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Anne of Green Gables, Oliver!, The Winslow Boy.

Biunial Magic Lantern

A large biunial mahogany and brass magic lantern. Biunial or double lens projectors have two separate optical systems that allow transition effects such as dissolves between slides.

Premo film pack daylight loading film

White box printed with black ink for text and red ink borders, used for packaging Premo film packs for Premo film or plate cameras. Contained 12 cut celluloid negatives at 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 size, designed for daylight loading film exposures. The film packs were stored in an initially cardboard or metal frame that was placed in the back of the camera. The user pulled a paper tab to advance a fresh film into place for each exposure and move the exposed film to the back of the pack. "Each of the paper tabs, which protrude through a slot in the camera and were torn off after being used, had a number on it which acted as a basic, though perfectly efficient, exposure counter." Film packs/ Mischa Koning.- http://kodak.3106.net/index.php?p=512, 2009. A sticker on the back of the box indicates this particular pack as "extra rapid". Box is now empty of negatives, but contains two sheets of folded paper with instructions for use and processing, and one piece of folded red tissue. Torn sticker recto center top stamped "This film must be developed before July 1915." Maker is identified as Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y. and Kodak, Limited, Kingsway, London, W.C. Kodak resellers in Paris and Germany are also listed on the recto.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodachrome II colour movie film for daylight

Boxes of Kodachrome II Colour Movie Film for double 8mm roll cameras. Both films are sensitized for daylight exposures. The larger box gives directions to process before Oct. 1969, the smaller one before Nov 1972. There is a sticker on the larger box with a price from Simpson's department store: 3.99. The larger box has been opened, but still contains film and sheet of folded paper with instructions.

Kodak Canada Inc.

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.

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.

H.M.S. Superb Voyage album

Decorated blue cover with green pages. Photographs inserted into openings in pages. Handwritten notations in black ink. Some loose photographs; back indicate they were postcards.

Inside front cover: "Photographs taken from H.M.S. Superb during her voyage under sealed orders from Rosythe (Scotland) to take supreme command of the allied fleets in the Mediterranean and Near East, arrange the Armistice with Turkey and capture the German fleet in the Black Sea."

Themes include: exercises on the deck, uniformed sailors and marines, British Marines Guard of Honour to Sultan, German fleet surrendering and held captive, French flagship.

Locations include: Malta, Mundros, Grecian Archipelago, "River Clyde", Sea of Marmara, Golden Horn in Turkey, Sultan's Winter Place, Constantinople, Bosphorus, Sebastopol - Black Sea, Balaclava Bay - Crimea,

Print album

Black soft cover album with word "Photographs" on front in white lettering. Bound by green braided string. Black pages with photos glued in as well as tape. Mostly illustrations and sketches only 1 photo (g.s.p.) but note in pencil on photo says 1858 - Crimean War? Includes a receipt of "returned soldier's insurance" - 1930

Europe album

Album covered in blue fabric. Light brown pages with photographs glued smoothly on. Handwritten labels in black ink directly onto album pages.
Places: Rauceby Hall in Lincolnshire, English homes, Bottom Castle in Yorkshire, the St. John's College and Chapel at the University of Cambridge, the Swiss Alps, views of Paris - Palaise du Luxembourg, Palaisides Tulleries, Versailles, La Madelaine, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, L'Opera, [Parc] St. Cloud -, Mer de Glace in France, military, Norway - such as Nidaros Cathedral - and Lapland region, and various other imagery from England, Switzerland, Italy, France and Norway.

Themes: portraits, scenery and landscapes, cameras , 4-plate panorama of Lyngenkjeden, architecture - castles, homes, cathedrals.

Dates included: 1872, 1873, 1890.

Shields, Lorne

England album

Item consists of brown, textured, hardcover, leather-bound album with decorative flower detailing on cover. Leather has worn off the spine. Pages are an off-white colour with decorative gold embossing and illustrative floral detail. Photographs slide in between two pieces of card that make each page and hold them in place.

Photographs are mostly portraits of one or two figures taken in studios across England, primarily around London, in towns and cities that include Brighton, Luton, Woburn, Tavistock, Bedford, Northampton and London. One photograph was made at J. C. Waler & Co. at 147 Yonge Street, Toronto.The address written inside the cover of the album is 61 High Street Ridgmont Bedford. Some notes and captions are written under and on the back of a few of the photographs in pencil and black ink. Inserted in the front page of the album are two loose pages with personal notes dated 1847 and 1881.

Studio names include: Chenhall & Son, The American Photo Co., W. Hall & Son, Powell Studios, T. Miller - Artist, Photo Artist - Lewes,

Names: W, M, Francis, T.G. Roberts The County Tea Exchange and Provision Warehouse [address was 45 & 46 High Street]

Shields, Lorne

Rochester, Castle & Cathedral from the Medway

Sepia-toned print, slightly hand tinted with green and blue, of a river with boats and background of town with church steeple an castle. Mounted on thick mat board. Recto caption in white on image area, bottom: "Rochester, Castle & Cathedral from the Medway. Photochrom Copyright 74859." Verso label, bottomleft, reads: "Real photo calendar made by Photochrom Co. Ltd. at thier works in Turbridge Wells, Kent. Design no. LV32." Verso insription in pencil, centre: "1/2 236 Sold 50 c ea"

[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."

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

House of Parliament, London

Lantern slide, glass B&W slide in wood frame. Printed on slide "Houses of Parliament London" on one side, and on the other printed in gold on black background "C.T. Milligan, Magic Lantern Manuf'r, No. 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa." Sticker with a Y on it. Thinner wood frame with paper or thin cardboard pasted over top. Image of the Parliament building in London, England.

Canterbury cathedral and girl

Two pairs of photographs originally grouped together. Two photographs are of a girl seated on a miniature chaise longue in front of garden wall, and two photographs are of the interior of Canterbury Cathedral. The cathedral photographs have both been written on verso in pencil "Canterbury Cathedral," and individually in ink, "Presbytery and Archbishop Bourchier's Tomb" and "Effigy of the Black Prince from his Tomb."

Shields, Lorne

The Sanderson Hand and Stand Camera, Regular model

Item is a black leather-covered wooden folding 5" x 4", or quarter plate, camera. The camera has red leather, diagonal cornered bellows, Bausch and Lomb Automat shutter, and BECK 7" Convertible Double Aplanat lens. The ring-shaped clamp dates the model to 1907.

Houghtons Ltd.

Folding Filma camera

Item is a black leather covered folding camera with leather bellows, for exposures on 120 roll-film. Camera has a Marvel shutter with 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, B and T settings, an aperture range from6 6-45, and a brilliant viewfinder. A focus guide plate from 5 feet to infinity is mounted on the camera rail.

Kodak Duaflex II

Item is a mock twin lens reflex camera with Bakelite body and metal fittings, for use with 620 roll film. Designed to mimic the look of a twin lens camera, the topmost "lens" is in fact a brilliant viewfinder; it is a simple box camera design. The f8 lens has a 3 aperture settings.

Ensign Box Camera

Item is an Ensign rollfilm box camera that takes 3.25 x 2.25 inch exposures on 120 film. The camera has two viewfinders, three unlabelled aperture settings, and two shutter speeds.

Coronet Midget camera

Item is a molded walnut Bakelite camera with cast metal hardware and dual lenses. The front metal plate is cast with "CORONET, MIDGET, 16 mm FILM, MADE BY THE CORONET CAMERA CO. BIRMINGHAM, BRITISH PATENTS APPLIED FOR, DESIGN REGISTERED." The Moroccan leather case has the company logo and "MADE IN ENGLAND" in gold letterpress.

Polaroid One Step EXPRESS

Item is a snapshot camera with built-in flash for instant photographs with Polaroid 600 film. Includes a close-up feature, fold-down flash bar and single element, fixed-focus plastic lens and automatic exposure metering. Camera body is green plastic. This model was built in England.

Polaroid Corporation

Portrait of boy holding paddle, beach setting

Item is a cream cabinet card with red letterpress at bottom, "G.A. OLDHAM, COLCHESTER." On verso, graphic design with text, "G.A. OLDHAM/ PHOTOGRAPHER/ AND/ MINIATURE PAINTER/ 11 QUEEN ST./ COLCHESTER/ NEGATIVES KEPT./ COPIES MAY BE HAD BY/ SENDING TO ABOVE ADDRESS./ Marion Imp. Paris, London - Déposé - Copyright." Photograph shows a boy holding a paddle, standing in front of a painted lake or seaside backdrop with a small boat on the shore. Boy is same as pictured in 2005.001.107.

G.A. Oldham Photographer and Miniature Painter

Portrait of W.J. Richards

Item is a white cabinet card with purple letterpress at bottom, "NEGRETTI/&/ZAMBRA/ CRYSTAL PALACE/ SYDENHAM." Photograph shows a bearded man in plain wool coat wearing a flat hat. On verso, in purple letterpress, "Negretti & Zambra/ CRYSTAL PALACE,/ SYDENHAM/ Copies may be had by/ quoting the above number." At top left, "No." is printed with "83297" handwritten in black ink immediately following. Along bottom right, written sideways in black ink, "W. J. Richards".

Negretti & Zambra

Portrait of four women

Item is a photograph of four young women mounted on a postcard backing. The image is a full-length portrait, wiht three women in white blouses and dark, plain wrap-style skirts (the one at the far right has buttons decorating the seam) and the youngest in a sailor style dress. On verso, in black ink, "POST CARD/ BRITISH MADE" and a line dividing two sections for "Correspondence" and "Address". At the far left, printed sideways, "Kestin Photographer Skipton".

Kestin Photographer

Portrait of a young girl

Item is a white carte de visite with photograph of a young girl in dres with short lace sleeves and a dark sash around the waist. She is seated on fur. At the bottom of the card, in black letterpress, "Grimmett, INSTANTANEOUS PORTRAIT/ PARSONS ST BANBURY." On verso, a form is laid out sideways on the card. "IN ORDERING COPIES IS NOT NECESSARY/ TO SEND THIS PHOTOGRAPH SIMPLY QUOTE/ THIS NO". In black ink, no is given as "1136". "GRIMMETT,/ Art Photographer/ ALL PORTRAITS TAKEN BY AN INSTANTAEOUS PROCESS/ Parsons Street,/ Banbury./ THE NEGATIVE OF THIS PORTRAIT WILL BE PRESERVED SO THAT COPIES MAY BE HAD AT ANY TIME IT CAN BE ENLARGED OR/ REDUCED AND FINISHED IN OIL OR WATER COLOURS".

Grimmett Art Photographer

Portrait of a woman

Item is a cream card with light pink backing. Vignetted portrait of a woman in a high collared dress with vertical ribbon decoration. At bottom of front of card, in brown letterpress, "G. W. Secretan 210a TUFNELL PARK Rd". On verso, also in brown, "210a TUFNELL PART Rd/ LONDON N./ G. W. Secretan/ FROM Mora NEW YORK/ GROUNDS ATTACHED TO THE STUDIO/ FOR PHOTOGRAPHING CYCLISTS GROUPS/ & EQUESTRIAN PICTURES./ NEGATIVES ARE NEVER DESTROYED./ COPIES CAN BE HAD AT ANY TIME./ NO...../ ALEX:LINDNER, BERLIN".

George William O Secretan

Portrait of man in checked suit

Item is a beige cabinet card with black letterpress at bottom edge, "Turner & Drinkwater/ 8, Regents Terrace/ Hull." Photograph is a portrait of a man leaning against a chair with his right hand in his pocket. He wears a checked suitjacket and matching waistcoat with plain trousers. There is a thin piece of glassine tissue attached at the top of the card that folds over the front of the card. The tissue has a design lithographed on it with the heraldic badge of the Prince of Wales above the text "TURNER & DRINKWATER/ THE STUDIO ROYAL, HULL./ NO. 8/ REGENT'S TERRACE." On verso, black text printed sideways, "Photographers to Their Royal Highnesses/ The Prince & Princess of Wales,/ Duke of Edinburgh and/ Duke of Cambridge". Handwritten in pencil at the lower left corner, "43825".

Turner and Drinkwater

Round portrait of a woman

Managed by William Hebb until 1876, when Oliver M. Hill took over the position.grey card which fades from light to dark from left to right, with round portrait of a woman with a ruffle-collared dress. At bottom right, embossed in white on a diagonal, "F. W. Wood Ltd. 347 & 349 EDGEWARE RD. ,W./ 8, 22 BISHOPS RD., W." On verso, handwritten in pencil, "112330".

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