Collection Highlights
Contraband Camp -- Harper's Ferry, VA
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.065.815.7
Medium:
Stereograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Photographic equipment
Object Number:
2002.1.3091
Date:
1920-1960
Medium:
Glass, metal, paper
Dimensions:
9 1/4 x 3 x 3 in.
Description:
A tall square dark amber machine finished glass bottle that once held fixer solution for photographic processing, marked on the edges and one side with graduations and embossed on one side "Fink-Roselieve", and on the bottom "F-R". A red and white paper label on one side has a print of a news photographer in black, in a fedora holding a camera to his face, surrounded by the words "FR/ Fixol/ Concentrated/ Acid Fixing/ Hardening Solution/ The FR Corporation/ New York 56, N.Y., U.S.A.". A label on the reverse has directions for use and cautions. A black metal cap reads in white "FR".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
