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Haloid Company Collection, ca. 1920s
P-242
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Title: Haloid Company Collection, ca. 1920s
Dates: 1925
Collection Number: P-242
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Extent: (Boxes: 1 ov)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: The prints in the Haloid Company Collection pre-date the company's involvement with xerography. They appear to be photographs
intended to be used as examples of the various textures of "modern photographic papers."
Language of Material: English
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Haloid Company Collection, ca. 1920s. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Biography/Administrative History
The Haloid Company, Rochester, New York, was founded in 1906 to manufacture and sell photographic paper. In 1958, the name
of the company was changed from the Haloid Company to Haloid Xerox Inc. Three years later, Haloid Xerox became Xerox Corporation.
Scope and Content of Collection
The prints in the Haloid Company Collection pre-date the company's involvement with xerography. They appear to be photographs
intended to be used as examples of the various textures of "modern photographic papers." All ten prints are ten by fourteen
inches and are black and white studio portraits of young women. The hair and fashion styles of the subjects, along with other
props such as a telephone, suggest that the photographs were created in the 1920's.
Each print has been individually housed in a folder labeled according to the photograph's own description of its paper or
texture.
The original envelope is included with the collection and includes the company logo along with the description "Haloid Photographic
Papers of Quality." The address is given as The Haloid Company, Rochester, New York.
Camera, early photography & moving pictures