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 1 Collection or Record:
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