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- Daguerreotype View Camera and Accessories, 1850 -
- 1850
- Collections - Artifact
Daguerreotype View Camera and Accessories, 1850
- Scovill & Adams Company View Camera with J. H. Dallmeyer Lens, 1889-1902 -
- 1889-1902
- Collections - Artifact
Scovill & Adams Company View Camera with J. H. Dallmeyer Lens, 1889-1902
- Brownie Movie Projector, circa 1955 - When Kodak invented the "Standard 8" film format in 1932, they also ushered in the rise of "home movies." Both 8mm film stock and cameras were affordable and widespread by the 1950s. From family events to amateur and experimental movie productions, these cameras provided a new way to record personal history, and alternative creative outlets to Hollywood entertainment.
- circa 1955
- Collections - Artifact
Brownie Movie Projector, circa 1955
When Kodak invented the "Standard 8" film format in 1932, they also ushered in the rise of "home movies." Both 8mm film stock and cameras were affordable and widespread by the 1950s. From family events to amateur and experimental movie productions, these cameras provided a new way to record personal history, and alternative creative outlets to Hollywood entertainment.
- Sony Trinicon Video Camera, Used by Ford Motor Company, 1983 -
- 1983
- Collections - Artifact
Sony Trinicon Video Camera, Used by Ford Motor Company, 1983
- Instructions for Use of the "HOYA Coated Close-up Lens," 1941-1971 - In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs celebrate a unique chapter of American history. He used this equipment on his travels.
- 1941-1971
- Collections - Artifact
Instructions for Use of the "HOYA Coated Close-up Lens," 1941-1971
In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs celebrate a unique chapter of American history. He used this equipment on his travels.
- Kodak Lens Cleaning Paper Packaging, Used by John Margolies, circa 1975 - In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs celebrate a unique chapter of American history. He used this equipment on his travels.
- circa 1975
- Collections - Artifact
Kodak Lens Cleaning Paper Packaging, Used by John Margolies, circa 1975
In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs celebrate a unique chapter of American history. He used this equipment on his travels.
- Motion-Picture Camera, 1905-1915 - This motion picture camera was used at Thomas Edison's West Orange laboratories. Edison's 1888 patent for a device that could do "for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear" produced intense technological experimentation--and the development of the American film industry. Over two short decades, recording and projection technologies standardized, and sophisticated audiences began to demand quality productions.
- 1905-1915
- Collections - Artifact
Motion-Picture Camera, 1905-1915
This motion picture camera was used at Thomas Edison's West Orange laboratories. Edison's 1888 patent for a device that could do "for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear" produced intense technological experimentation--and the development of the American film industry. Over two short decades, recording and projection technologies standardized, and sophisticated audiences began to demand quality productions.
- Camera Case, 1890-1900 -
- 1890-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Camera Case, 1890-1900
- Photographic Herald and Amateur Sportsman Magazine for November 1889 -
- November 01, 1889
- Collections - Artifact
Photographic Herald and Amateur Sportsman Magazine for November 1889
- Argus Yellow Lens Filter, 1939-1944 -
- 1939-1944
- Collections - Artifact
Argus Yellow Lens Filter, 1939-1944