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glass plate negatives

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Sheets of glass coated with light-sensitive emulsion that have been exposed and developed, and that are intended as matrices for the creation of positive photographic prints on another support.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Manny Gorin Wright Brothers Glass Plate Negatives Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2004-09-07
Content Description The Manny Gorin Wright Brothers Glass Plate Negatives Collection consists of 15 glass plate negatives of the Wright Brothers and their Model A aircraft in France, circa 1908-1909. Four images depict the Model A in flight. Five images show the aircraft on the ground with groups of people, primarily men, standing around it and inspecting it. One image shows the plane being wheeled across a dirt road toward a barn-like structure, likely Wilbur's temporary hangar at the Hunaudières...
Dates: 1908-1909

Alan Lonsdale Patterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-08-03-A
Overview Alan Lonsdale Patterson worked extensively in the field of aviation from the 1920s to the 1980s. Throughout his career he worked as a barnstormer, pilot and established multiple companies that facilitated the sale of aircraft and aeronautical equipment, predominately between companies based in the United States and China. The collection represents both his professional and personal life through correspondence, photographs, business records, clippings and audiovisual materials, as well as...
Dates: 1876-2021; Majority of material found within 1920-1981

Ed Power Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-04-16-A
Abstract

The collection contains a glass plate negative and print from negative featuring an Albatros D.V (L24).

Dates: circa 1917-1918

Subseries C. Glass Plates, circa 1900s-1930s

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents From the Series: With more than 229 cubic feet of material, including prints, negatives, transparencies and scrapbooks, the photographic component of the collection makes up the vast majority of the collection and is an incredible resource of documentary images of aircraft. The series is subdivided into five subseries: aircraft files, non-aircraft files, glass plates, scrapbooks and albums, and the Sommerich collection. The aircraft files are then subdivided by format: prints,...
Dates: circa 1900s-1930s

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