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Photograph Album of Electroflo Instruments, 1920s

Inventory Number 13030


Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003. Part of the Elliott Archive.
Primary inscriptions
Album name 'Photex Expanding Album'.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Cloth
Object type
Album
Dimensions
Height: 215mm Width: 260mm Depth: 54mm
Inventory No
13030
Accession Number
2003-11

Description

Oblong 'Photex' album bound in brown cloth. 59 brown paper leaves + pocket. Pages approximately 8 x 10 inches. 114 mounted photographs, modern-style glossy black-and-white gelatine prints, with typed caption labels; together with 1 loose photograph (carbon print of the huge control panel at Velsen Power Station), and 1 photograph (gelatine print) and 1 halftone in the end pocket. They show Electroflo instruments and control panels, and panels and installations in situ; one shows the Electroflo stand at a 1927 trade exhibition. Second of 2, companion of 13029. The album (which is designed to be expandable) has been expanded with additional leaves to twice its original width.