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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 1 Collection or Record:

Burr D. Cline Boeing Photographs and Negatives

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-01-21
Contents of the Collection The Burr D. Cline Boeing Photographs and Negatives is a small collection comprised of seven black-and-white photographs and 18 negatives taken in Seattle, Washington, circa 1929-1937. The photographs were taken with or collected by Burr D. Cline, Sr. who worked for Boeing Airplane Company in the Final Assembly Department in the 1920s-1940s. Most of the negatives depict Boeing aircraft at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington. Aircraft include the Boeing Model 80A, Boeing Model 203,...
Dates: circa 1929-1937

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