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slide tray with 35 mm slides
Date: 1980-1990
Inventory Number: 2004-1-0241
Classification: Photographic Slides
Subject:
Maker: Eastman Kodak Company (1881-present)
User: Edwin H. Land (1909 - 1991)
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Dimensions:
slide tray: 5.2 × 24.4 × 24.4 cm (2 1/16 × 9 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
box: 7.3 × 29 × 25.5 cm (2 7/8 × 11 7/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Description:
Ektagraphic Universal Slide Tray Model 2, marked "Tray 5 / L" and "#371-450". It contains a carousel with 80 slides used by Land for optical experiments (different shapes and patterns of colors). "L" is for left eye. Inside the box there is a handwritten correspondence chart, matching the slide identification number to its place in the carousel. (The correspondence chart also matches the slides found in the box similarly identified, but for the right eye.)
All these were most likely used with the projectors on the racks, found in inv. numbers 2004-1-0159a, 2004-1-161a, and 2004-1-0211.
All these were most likely used with the projectors on the racks, found in inv. numbers 2004-1-0159a, 2004-1-161a, and 2004-1-0211.
In Collection(s)
Signedon tray and box: Kodak
FunctionUsed by Land for his experiments with color vision (Retinex theory). It was also most likely used in Land's famous lectures on the same topic.
ProvenanceThis object belonged to Edwin H. Land and came from the Rowland Institute, Harvard University. Gift of the Edwin H. Land Family.
