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cabinet of photographic slides for the study of color vision
Date: 1955-1980
Inventory Number: 2004-1-0264b
Classification: Slides
Subject:
Maker: Edwin H. Land (1909 - 1991)
Maker: Polaroid Corporation (1937-present)
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Dimensions:
132.5 x 46 x 71.5 cm (52 3/16 x 18 1/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
DescriptionThis is a metallic eight-drawer cabinet marked at the top on tape: ATHENAEUM. It contains various types of photographic images that were used by Edwin Land in his study of color vision, which led to the Retinex theory. These were most likely used with projectors and instruments, like the monochromator, now part of the CHSI collection. (See related tab.) Following is a brief description of what the drawers contain.
Drawer 1 is marked: 100 Series / Red & White; 100 Series / Red/Green/Blue / Multiple records; 100. *Stereo glass slides, most with geometrical shapes (mostly squares) of color. The red and white slides were part of a famous experiments leading to the Retinex theory of color vision.*
Drawer 2 is marked: Extra Mounts; Blank / "Black" / Slides. *This drawer is almost empty and contains empty plastic Polaroid Slide Mount #633. There is also a chart mapping type of images to numbered slots, but it does not go with this drawer.*
Drawer 3 is marked: 200 Series / Double cont.; 300 Series / Wedges / (ordered & random seq.); 400 / Lightness. *Glass slides of B&W squares, still life images and other pictures of all sorts. Most if not all of these glass slides are stereoscopic.*
Drawer 4 is marked: 600 / Six Eyes of Man; 700 / Stereo / L eye/R eye. *Glass slides of still life images and geometrical shapes, most in B&W, in what appears to be random positions.*
Drawer 5 is marked: 900 / Lightness & / Form; 1000 / Synthetic / B&W. *Stereoscopic still life images on glass slides.*
Drawer 6 is marked: William James / Lectures; N.E.O.S.A. *Several of the slides are mounted on Polaroid's plastic slide mount #633. These appear to have been made for lectures given by Land on his color theory. Separators indicate, for instance: Princeton, IEEE, Darthmouth, Tufts. Another separator indicates that there are slides of the B&W Mondrian panels.*
Drawer 7 is marked: MACH BANDS / 1101-to-; MIT 1970; A.P.S. / A. A. O. / Royal Photo Soc. *Again, most of the plastic mounted slides appear to have been made for lectures given by Land. There is a wooden box with still life images on glass slides.*
Drawer 8 is not marked. It contains 35 mm slides, including what appear to be a photographed book (by Young?). Some boxes of 35 mm slides are dated 1978. One of these is also marked "SX-70", slides that show pictures taken by this new type of instant cameras.
Drawer 1 is marked: 100 Series / Red & White; 100 Series / Red/Green/Blue / Multiple records; 100. *Stereo glass slides, most with geometrical shapes (mostly squares) of color. The red and white slides were part of a famous experiments leading to the Retinex theory of color vision.*
Drawer 2 is marked: Extra Mounts; Blank / "Black" / Slides. *This drawer is almost empty and contains empty plastic Polaroid Slide Mount #633. There is also a chart mapping type of images to numbered slots, but it does not go with this drawer.*
Drawer 3 is marked: 200 Series / Double cont.; 300 Series / Wedges / (ordered & random seq.); 400 / Lightness. *Glass slides of B&W squares, still life images and other pictures of all sorts. Most if not all of these glass slides are stereoscopic.*
Drawer 4 is marked: 600 / Six Eyes of Man; 700 / Stereo / L eye/R eye. *Glass slides of still life images and geometrical shapes, most in B&W, in what appears to be random positions.*
Drawer 5 is marked: 900 / Lightness & / Form; 1000 / Synthetic / B&W. *Stereoscopic still life images on glass slides.*
Drawer 6 is marked: William James / Lectures; N.E.O.S.A. *Several of the slides are mounted on Polaroid's plastic slide mount #633. These appear to have been made for lectures given by Land on his color theory. Separators indicate, for instance: Princeton, IEEE, Darthmouth, Tufts. Another separator indicates that there are slides of the B&W Mondrian panels.*
Drawer 7 is marked: MACH BANDS / 1101-to-; MIT 1970; A.P.S. / A. A. O. / Royal Photo Soc. *Again, most of the plastic mounted slides appear to have been made for lectures given by Land. There is a wooden box with still life images on glass slides.*
Drawer 8 is not marked. It contains 35 mm slides, including what appear to be a photographed book (by Young?). Some boxes of 35 mm slides are dated 1978. One of these is also marked "SX-70", slides that show pictures taken by this new type of instant cameras.
Signedon some plastic slide mounts: POLAROID
ProvenanceThis object belonged to Edwin H. Land and came from the Rowland Institute, Harvard University. Gift of the Edwin H. Land Family.
