Portable Dark Room. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Portable Dark Room.

Creator

  • Inventor: Serdinko, John
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Serdinko, J., of New Braunfels, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Holtz, S. H.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Meyer, H. E.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Patent Office.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1882-02-28
  • Acceptance Date: 1882-02-28
  • Submission Date: 1881-12-22

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved portable dark room. This design "consists in a box provided with an opening in one side and a sleeve of pliable material extending outward from this opening, which box contains two smaller boxes for receiving the exposed and unexposed dry plates. The box is provided with a handle for carrying it" (lines 13-19).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: dark rooms
  • Keyword: photography

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Comal County - New Braunfels

Collection

  • Name: Texas Patents
    Code: TXPT

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Patent

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Patent Number: 254392
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth170314

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,392, dated February 28, 1882. Application filed December 22, 1881. (Model.)"
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