Glass Plate Negatives
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Coxe Brothers and Company, Inc. (Drifton, Pennsylvania)
label: Collection Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology
label: Collection Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
label: Collection Collector
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Extractive Industries
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content: Coxe Brothers Collection
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content: Coxe Brothers Collection / Series 5: Glass Plate Negatives and Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1893
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1002, Subseries 5.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.