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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 4 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Louisa Allen photographs of the Lewis and Clark Exposition

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1097
Abstract

Black and white photographs of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon, taken by amateur photographer Mary Louisa Allen and primarily depicting buildings and statuary. The collection contains prints and corresponding negatives, as well as a small number of negatives for which there is no print.

Dates: 1905

Council Crest Amusement Park negatives

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1469
Abstract

Small collection of six negatives, taken in approximately 1909, that depict Council Crest Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon. The amusement park operated at the top of Council Crest from 1907 to 1929.

Dates: circa 1909

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