Historical Audio-Visual Materials In Brief
The 21st century has seen an unprecedented boom in technological advancement. Gadgets and machines from just a few years ago can seem clunky and obsolete today. This collection of AV material provides a look at the history of technology itself, and at how technology contributed to the preservation of Reed College’s history. The primary source set is based on the different types of AV material housed in Reed’s Special Collections and Archives and is divided into three sections: photographic material, moving picture material, and audio material. The photography section begins with the invention of the daguerreotype around 1839 by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and ends with the Viewmaster as introduced by Sawyer’s in 1939. The audio section covers vinyl-pressed records, mostly 33 ⅓ LPs, but includes a 16-inch one sided album and ends with the Compact-Disc as it enters its twilight years. The oldest part of the motion film section includes 16mm film reels, invented in 1923, as well remnants from the VHS-Betamax format war of the 1970s.
Created by Sienna Holmes
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Daguerreotype (1839- ~1850s) -
Ambrotype (1850s-1880s) -
Stereopticon Images (1850-1920) -
Glass Plate Negatives (1851-1990s) -
Slide Photographs (1936-2004) -
Viewmaster (1939-Present) -
16mm Film Reels (1923-Present) -
Betamax (1975-2002) -
VHS (1976- late 2000s) -
16-inch Vinyl Record (circa 1945) -
10-inch Vinyl Record (1970s) -
6-inch Vinyl (1940) -
Cassettes (1965-2003) -
Compact-Discs (CDs) (1983-Present)