WWII Aerial Red Filter
Date1940-1950
Inventory Number2014-1-0065
ClassificationFilter
Subject
Maker
Eastman Kodak Company
1881-present
User
Oak Ridge Station
1931 - 2005
User
George R. Agassiz Station, Harvard
1951 - 1982
User
Harvard College Observatory
founded 1839
Place of Origin
Dimensionsfilter: 18.7 × 18.7 × 2.7 cm (7 3/8 × 7 3/8 × 1 1/16 in.)
box: 27.3 × 22.5 × 5.2 cm (10 3/4 × 8 7/8 × 2 1/16 in.)
box: 27.3 × 22.5 × 5.2 cm (10 3/4 × 8 7/8 × 2 1/16 in.)
Material
Accessoriesyellow box
Description6.25-inch red filter in Kodak box. Lens marked on cell: R-TYPE III EK 03 RECONNAISSANCE 805679
A World War II aerial camera red filter is housed inside an aging and dingy yellow cardboard box. The writing on the front of the box states: Red filter / for 4-inch Refractor. A Kodak Spectroscopic plate sticker is glued to the front of the box.
The red filter is free of any observable scarring or other blemishes.
A World War II aerial camera red filter is housed inside an aging and dingy yellow cardboard box. The writing on the front of the box states: Red filter / for 4-inch Refractor. A Kodak Spectroscopic plate sticker is glued to the front of the box.
The red filter is free of any observable scarring or other blemishes.
Signedon filter cell: R-TYPE III EK 03 RECONNAISSANCE 805679
Inscribedon box: Red filter / for 4-inch Refractor
FunctionPhotography
ProvenanceOak Ridge Observatory, Building # 7, darkroom,
transferred to CHSI. November 2014.
Historical AttributesFound in the darkroom at Oak Ridge Observatory.
Eastman Kodak Company
Date: circa 1952
Accessories: two-part box (black top has labelling, yellow bottom is plain), filter lens inside box, instruction manual inside carton
Object number: 1998-1-1677
Research Laboratories--Eastman Kodak Company
Date: 1923-1950
Object number: 2014-1-0045
Thomas S. Curtis Laboratories
Date: 1934-early 1940s
Accessories: extra lens; photographic color plates (5); operating instructions on cardboard; calibrated grey card
Object number: 2004-1-0302
Polaroid Corporation
Date: 1978
Object number: 2004-1-0506
Date: 1890-1930
Object number: RS0505
Eastman Kodak Company
Date: circa 1929
Object number: 2007-1-0028a-e
William J. Murdock Company
Date: 1910-1950
Object number: RS0163
Eastman Kodak Company
Date: 1970-1985
Object number: 2004-1-0286
Nachet et Fils (I)
Date: 1862
Accessories: 9 Glass slides; Cover glasses; bull's eye on jointed arm; small blue filter; flat case with key.
Object number: 1069d
Percy Williams Bridgman
Date: 1924-1937
Accessories: cardboard box of spare parts; rubber tube; yellow hand pump; metal wire; torque wrench; wrenches (3); 1 CD; 1 audio cassette; 1 user's manual; 1 graph
Object number: 2004-1-0404
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
Date: 1940-1945
Accessories: cord, sighting tube.
Object number: 2003-1-0167
