Glass Plate Negatives

Object Details

Collection Creator: Coxe Brothers and Company, Inc. (Drifton, Pennsylvania)
Collection Collector: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology; National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry; National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Extractive Industries

See more items in: Coxe Brothers Collection; Coxe Brothers Collection / Series 5: Glass Plate Negatives and Photographs

Collection Citation: Coxe Brothers Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Collection Rights: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Scope and Contents: The glass plate negatives are approximately 8 x 10 inches, and bear negative numbers handwritten at the bottom. These negatives were clearly understood by the Coxe company as part of a set of records for internal company use, and were numbered to enable their retrieval. It is important to note that some negatives that might seem like a logical series with the incremental construction of a breaker are not necessarily numbered consecutively. The negatives are not strictly business matters. Some depict people, and even a model train. Some of the glass plate negatives are smaller and unlabeled with negative numbers, but because of content and because they were found grouped together with the Coxe holdings they seem to belong with the other Coxe negatives.

Collection Restrictions: Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.