A cardboard box for glass plates.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1865 - 1870
Materials
Cardboard
Measurements
58 x 62 x 41 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524949.3.2
Summary
A cardboard box for glass plates. The top removes fully and the inside has six grooves on each side to hold the plates in position. The outside is dark brown and has a textured surface.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986