A box of Tylar's Light Tight Bags.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1900
Materials
Cardboard, Paper
Measurements
25 x 140 x 125 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525366
Summary
A box of Tylar's Light Tight Bags for packing exposed photographic plates. Rectangular cardboard lidded box containing 10 yellow-orange paper wallets with flap and 10 slightly larger black paper wallets with flap. Both are embossed with the manufacturer's name and address on the flaps. Each end of the lid has a white paper label printed in black with "Tylar's light-tight bags for packing exposed plates." There is a blue paper label on box lid, printed in brown-red ink including: "Tylar's Light Tight Bags for packing exposed plates. W. Tylar, 41 High Street, Aston, Birmingham. These bags are largely used in the leading colleges at home and abroad for photographing by the Rontgen Rays. Splendid convenience for Holiday Tours." and "Two plates are placed film to film and then enclosed in the yellow envelope, this is further protected by enclosure in the light proof black envelope. A number of these can then be firmly bound together and packed for transit without risk or damage." On the base of the box are white labels advertising other Tylar's products: Folding Pyramid Lamps for Changing plates or developing, and Tylar's Neverspent Developer.
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.