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Contact Printer
- Description
- Photo printer comprised of brown metal box with electric cord, and metal handle. Metal handle unclasps to raise the lid of the box, which exposes the glass underneath. "CYCON" is printed on the top in white bold letters on red ribbon-like drawing. "MFG BY / CYCON CORPORATION / LOS ANGELES" printed …
- Title
- Cycon Controlled Contrast Printer
- Manufacturer
- Cycon Manufacturing Corporation
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR MATERIALS
- Sub-Category
- PHOTOGRAPHIC TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
- Start Date
- 1945
- End Date
- 1949
- Period or Date Notes
- Dates based on availability of Cycon products in Popular Photography Magazine during those years of publication, including specific references to Cycon Contact Printer similar to this model in 1945 and 1946 editions
- Description
- Photo printer comprised of brown metal box with electric cord, and metal handle. Metal handle unclasps to raise the lid of the box, which exposes the glass underneath. "CYCON" is printed on the top in white bold letters on red ribbon-like drawing. "MFG BY / CYCON CORPORATION / LOS ANGELES" printed in smaller letters on circular yellow background below
- History Of Use
- To make contact prints: one or more negatives are placed in intimate contact with a sheet of sensitized photographic paper. The negative and the photographic paper are then placed, negative side down, onto the top transparent glass plate of the exposure box. Within the box and below the top plate is a translucent light diffuser made from frosted glass. Below the diffuser is a switch-controlled electric light source. A hinged top-cover keeps the materials in close contact and reduces or eliminates the amount of stray light allowed into the darkroom. Source: Wikipedia, Contact Print, accessed November 2017
- Accession No.
- 2017.22.1
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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