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1. Camera - Camera, folding

   A wooden camera with leather bellows, detachable lens, frosted glass back, brass adjusting screws, rubber bulb (no cable), marked as Rochester View - Rochester Optical View and Camera. This camera belonged to John Findlay Torrence Isham, a local amateur photographer, and was used to take pictures with glass-plate negatives.

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2. Frame, contact printing - Frame, camera

   A wooden frame with brass clips on back and 2 trap doors hinged in middle. It is used as a developing holder for the exposed glass-plate negative. The back is made in halves so that one half can be raised occasionally during the printing process to ascertain the progress of developement.

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3. Kerosene Lamp - Lamp, kerosene

   A sheet metal kerosene lamp with a tiny fill spout in the base. It has a square front with a red glass lens - apparently used in a dark room for making prints, either of glass-plate negatives or objects of an irregular shape. This lamp belonged to John Findlay Torrence Isham, a local amateur photographer.

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4. Printing block - Block, printing

   An etched copper plate attached to 3/4" thick hard wood block. Etching is printer's block of J.F.T. Isham self photo of J.F.T. milking a cow directly into cat's mouth, captioned: "Factory to Consumer", and was used to print postcards. Note: Printed postcard displayed with plate on shelf of Photo Cabinet. This block may have been created using a glass-plate negative.

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5. Rack, drying - Rack, drying

   A small wooden, folding drying rack for glass-plate negatives being developed. Two wooden frames, one inside the other, pinned to fold apart to 90 degrees of each other. Bottom legs cut 45 degrees to sit flat on table and the top cross-members are slotted to hold the glass-plate in position (12 slots). This drying rack belonged to John Findlay Torrence Isham, a local amateur photographer.

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6. Wollensak Box Camera with Junior Lens with (4) glass plate holders, etc. - Camera

   This glass-plate negative camera is mounted inside a leather covered wooden box. The "Junior" lens is mounted on a wooden face at the front of leather bellows, and there is a pneumatic shutter release. There are (4) glass plate holders made of wood. There is one glass plate.

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7. Wooden slide frame part of JFT Isham camera. - Plateholder

   A wooden frame with two removable laquered black cardboard slides on either side of fixed center. Each slide has a wooden finger grip attached with small copper rivets. Stamped on one side of frame is: " Rochester Camera and Supply Co., Rochester N.Y.". This is a component of the J.F.T. Isham camera. item # 1995.42.001. It was used in the process of developing glass-plate negatives.

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