Original box (empty) for Gevaert Dry Plates.
Gevaert Photo-Producten N. V.
Category
Ephemera
Date
1894 - 1920
Materials
Cardboard, Paper
Measurements
23 x 266 x 216 mm
Place of origin
Antwerp
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525350
Summary
Original box (empty) for Gevaert Dry Plates. Large rectangular brown cardboard lidded box with paper label on lid, printed in black and red: "Gevaert Dry Plates. Manufactured at the Gevaert Factories Vieux-Dieu, Antwerp, Belgium. 225 H & D". A white paper label on the base printed in black ink with information about Developers for Gevaert Plates.
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.
Makers and roles
Gevaert Photo-Producten N. V., manufacturer