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View-Master
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2018.09.02.006
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[ca.1939-] (Manufacturing)
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- Sawyer's Inc.
- Place
- Queens (NY)
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Physical description
1 piece of photographic viewing equipment : view master ; 1 photographic image : 14 three-dimensional colour transparencies on 1 reel ; 10.75 cm x 10 cm x 7.5 cm
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Item is a handheld view master manufactured by Sawyer's Inc and first introduced at the New York World Fair (1939-1940). Item is made of plastic and metal. Reel of 7 diametrical, 16 mm colour transparencies of famous landmarks in British Columbia, Canada. The lever on the side of the viewer will rotate the reel one frame at a time once pressed. Reels are interchangeable and come with a variety of themes.
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Physical condition
Wheel is in excellent condition and view master is fully functioning.
Immediate source of acquisition
Collected by the late Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass and donated to the Ryerson University Library and Archives by Gail Bass in 2018
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Sources
Smithsonian.Sawyer's View Master (Online).The National Museum of American History. Retrieved from http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1129885