Collections
Collections of color photographs taken using additive color screen processes (with an exception of collections of autochromes) are quite hard to find. we plan to maintain a list of such collections. If you know of additional ones, please write to Jan Hubička [email protected].
While working on Color-Screen Jan Hubička collected several examples of Paget, Autochrome, Filmcolor and Dufaycolor photographs as well as Paget taking/viewing screens by Ebay purchases. Mark Jacobs kindly donated Finlaycolor taking screens. The main purpose of this small collection, stored at Šechtl & Voseček Museum of Photography is research and we will be happy to share any scientific data (such as scans and measurements) with others. If justified, we can also borrow samples, for example, to test digitization setup before working with more valuable originals. We would greatly appreciate any donations to our set of examples, so we can extend our work to new processes.
Original and reconstructed Dufaycolor photograph. Scan available online, see Available scans of color screen processes
Yvette Borup's Paget plates from the first Asiatic Zoological Expedition 1916-1917 (National Museum of Natural History)
130 Paget plate negatives by Yvette Borup Andrews taken during the first Asiatic Zoological Expedition 1916–1917 in collection the American Museum of Natural History. Collection is digitized.
Reconstructed image from Paget color negative
- Blog by Kendra Meyer who discovered Paget plates in this wonderful collection
- Catalog
- AMNH Library authority record: Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition (1st : 1916-1917)
Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection (the American Colony collection) at the Library of Congress. This collection contains 179 Finlay color negatives and 3 color transparencies. Most photographs were taken in Africa in 1936. Earliest (taken in Betlehem) are dated 1934 and latest (taken in the archaeological site of Petra) are dated 1946. Collection was digitized by the Library of Congress in a quality which allows digital color reconstruction.
Reconstructed image from Finlay color negative.
Frank Hurley's Paget plates from Shackelton's expedition (British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917, State Library of New South Wales
Original scan (not reconstructed) of Paget color plate
Frank Hurley's Paget plates from World War I, State Library of New South Wales
Paget plates (positives with viewing screens attached) by Frank Hurley from the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–1917, 32 photographs and ca. 30 Paget plates (also positives) by Frank Hurley taken during WW1 in the collection of the State Library of New South Wales.
Original scan (not reconstructed) of Paget color plate
Approximately 300 photographs. No doubt this is one of most important collection of its kind.
Finlay color negatives and transparencies by Oscar Jordan (the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library)
We digitized several samples at the Franklind D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in 2022. The collection contains large quantity of Finlay color negatives of exception size, 8x10in.
This collection contains several Paget, Finlay and Dufaycolor transparencies. This collection was mass digitized at FADGI 4 standards by Digital Transitions / Pixel Acuity in 2022/2023.
- Catalog
- Sara Manco & Julie McVey - Managing the Chaos: National Geographic Society’s Special Collections Team’s Grant Project. Recorded presentation from 2023 DT Roundtable.
Collection of approximately 320 lantern slides made by the Paget Colour process by Henden Hardwick, depicting views in London, Hampstead and the Wye Valley listed at Science Museum Group catalogue. The collection contains also lecture notes and negatives.
Private collection of Mark Jacobs, while focused on Autochrome, contains examples of transparencies by Joly, Paget, Finlay, Dioptichrome and Dufay color screens.