Photography technical files, 1922-1981.

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Photography technical files, 1922-1981.

The records document Consumers' Research's testing, research, and projects relating to the reliability and quality of photography, photographic processing, cameras, and motion picture cameras. Included are correspondence, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographic prints and negatives, product literature, test results, operating manuals, advertisements, and purchase orders. Topics included are photography, mail order and commercial photographic processing, film development, preservation and deterioration of negatives and prints, cameras in general, disposable cameras, electric eye cameras, miniature cameras, plate cameras, Polaroid land cameras, instant cameras, reflex cameras, roll film cameras, single frame and used cameras. Other subjects included are photographic accessories such as filters, lenses, enlargers, exposure meters, flash bulbs, and film. Other topics included are motion picture cameras, electric eye motion picture film, motion picture projectors, projection apparatus, slide projectors, lantern slides, stereoscopic cameras, microphotography for the office, early forms of photocopying, and photocopy machines.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...