Aerial camera equipment

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Object name: 
Date: 
Medium: 
Dimensions: 
Overall: 10 × 8 × 7 in. (25.4 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm)
Place Made: 
Description: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. William W. Thomas, 1988
Object Number: 
2017.68.7
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Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
0
eMuseum Object ID: 
84326
Exclude from TMS update: 
3
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Aerial camera equipment

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Object name: 
Date: 
Medium: 
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 1/2 × 10 × 11 in. (24.1 × 25.4 × 27.9 cm)
Place Made: 
Description: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. William W. Thomas, 1988
Object Number: 
2017.68.6
Marks: 
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Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
0
eMuseum Object ID: 
84325
Exclude from TMS update: 
3
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Aerial camera lens

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Object name: 
Date: 
Medium: 
Dimensions: 
Overall: 11 1/2 × 15 × 11 1/2 in. (29.2 × 38.1 × 29.2 cm)
Place Made: 
Description: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. William W. Thomas, 1988
Object Number: 
2017.68.5
Marks: 
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Provenance: 
Bibliography: 
Prior Exhibitions: 
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
0
eMuseum Object ID: 
84324
Exclude from TMS update: 
3
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Aerial camera

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Object name: 
Date: 
Medium: 
Dimensions: 
Overall: 10 1/2 × 14 × 14 in. (26.7 × 35.6 × 35.6 cm)
Place Made: 
Description: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. William W. Thomas, 1988
Object Number: 
2017.68.4
Marks: 
Inscriptions: 
Gallery Label: 
Provenance: 
Bibliography: 
Prior Exhibitions: 
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
0
eMuseum Object ID: 
84323
Exclude from TMS update: 
3
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Aerial camera

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Object name: 
Date: 
Medium: 
Dimensions: 
Overall: 10 1/2 × 14 × 14 in. (26.7 × 35.6 × 35.6 cm)
Place Made: 
Description: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. William W. Thomas, 1988
Object Number: 
2017.68.3
Marks: 
Inscriptions: 
Gallery Label: 
Provenance: 
Bibliography: 
Prior Exhibitions: 
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
0
eMuseum Object ID: 
84322
Exclude from TMS update: 
3
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Aerial camera

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Object name: 
Date: 
Medium: 
Dimensions: 
Overall: 10 × 14 × 13 in. (25.4 × 35.6 × 33 cm)
Place Made: 
Description: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. William W. Thomas, 1988
Object Number: 
2017.68.2
Marks: 
Inscriptions: 
Gallery Label: 
Provenance: 
Bibliography: 
Prior Exhibitions: 
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
0
eMuseum Object ID: 
84321
Exclude from TMS update: 
3
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Aerial camera with magazine

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Object name: 
Date: 
Medium: 
Dimensions: 
Overall: 15 × 24 × 11 in. (38.1 × 61 × 27.9 cm)
Place Made: 
Description: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. William W. Thomas, 1988
Object Number: 
2017.68.1
Marks: 
Inscriptions: 
Gallery Label: 
Provenance: 
Bibliography: 
Prior Exhibitions: 
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
0
eMuseum Object ID: 
84320
Exclude from TMS update: 
3
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

No. 9A Century Studio Camera with Wollensak lens

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Object name: 
Date: 
1922-1927, with later additions
Medium: 
Wood (probably mahogany and cherry), iron, brass, other metals (probably plated cadmium), glass, vinyl, cloth, and rubber
Dimensions: 
Place Made: 
Description: 

Wooden camera chassis mounted on velvet-topped platform bed, supported on wood and iron Century Semi-Centennial stand. Camera includes bellows, glass and metal lens and shutter, sliding ground glass carriage and frame and glass plate, wood and iron control knobs, iron wheel crank, and rubber bulb shutter; with later focusing hood.

Credit Line: 
Gift of Kenneth E. Sherman
Object Number: 
2017.54
Marks: 
Inscriptions: 
Gallery Label: 

The Century Camera Company introduced cameras of this type in 1902. Although the founding firm was absorbed by Eastman Kodak in 1907, the cameras were manufactured until 1940. This camera belonged to Editta Sherman, who claimed that the camera once belonged to her father.

Provenance: 
Bibliography: 
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Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1927
eMuseum Object ID: 
83273
Exclude from TMS update: 
3
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Google Cardboard headset

Classification: 
Is owned by NYHS: 
Yes
Object name: 
Date: 
2015
Medium: 
Cardboard, plastic, velcro
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 3 1/4 in. (8.9 × 14.6 × 8.3 cm)
Place Made: 
Description: 

Google Cardboard virtual reality headset; corrugated cardboard viewer side flaps and void cut for nose; plastic lenses; and slot for inserting a smartphone with velcro-secured flap.

Credit Line: 
Gift of Louise Mirrer
Object Number: 
2017.32
Marks: 
Proper left and right sides: "For more information visit / nytimes.com/vr; front: The New York Times [GE symbol]; bottom: [CR code] / viewer profile / Get Apps and / product safety / information at: / google.com/cardboard / Google;" inside: [pictographs i
Inscriptions: 
Gallery Label: 

In November 2015, the New York Times helped usher in a new era of digital journalism by mailing more than one million Google Cardboard virtual reality headsets to print subscribers and simultaneously launching a new VR app. Early topics covered by "NYT VR" included refugee children, the US presidential election, and the dwarf planet Pluto, all evoking the feeling of actually being there.

Provenance: 
Bibliography: 
Prior Exhibitions: 
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
2015
eMuseum Object ID: 
80429
Exclude from TMS update: 
3
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

"Brownie Flash Six-20" camera

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1946
Medium: 
Metal, leather
Dimensions: 
Overall (Camera): 4 1/4 x 4 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. (10.8 x 10.5 x 6.4 cm) Box: 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. (19.7 x 12.4 x 6.4 cm
Description: 
Kodak Brownie camera, with flash accessory. Metal, box-shaped camera with leather laminated to surface and leather strap handle; Fixed lens. Flash accessory boxed, with batteries and light housing.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mary Ann Dzupin Gallagher and Nancy Dzupin York in memory of John Dzupin
Object Number: 
2011.10.4ab
Gallery Label: 
This Brownie camera belonged to the donor's father, John Dzupin (1915-1988). The designated family photographer, he took pictures of the family on all occasions. As most of the extended Dzupin family lived in Czechoslovakia, photographs sent through the mail provided an important method of bridging the distance.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1951
eMuseum Object ID: 
67214
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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