cellulose nitrate film
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: A flexible support or base used for photographic negatives and motion picture film from 1890 to the 1950s. It is made of cellulose nitrate with camphor as a plasticizer; it is unstable and flammable.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Marie Holst Pottsmith photographs
Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 460
Abstract
This collection consists of original sheet film negatives taken by Marie Holst Pottsmith, the bulk of which she made during the eight months of 1908 that she taught in the remote Finnish community of Hamlet, Oregon. These images document people, farming, and community life in Hamlet. Other photos in the collection depict her studies at the University of Oregon; her time teaching at Fisher, Washington; and her early married life as a Presbyterian minister’s wife in Washington and Oregon. The...
Dates:
1908-circa 1956; Majority of material found within 1908-1919
J. Enos Wait photographic negatives
Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1441
Abstract
Collection consists of nitrate negatives of Oregon and Washington scenes from approximately 1905-1910, including images of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon. The photographs were taken by J. Enos Wait (1870-1947), a dentist from Superior, Nebraska.
Dates:
approximately 1905-1910