The collection

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Perspective corrected photograph of a cooling tower's hyperboloid throat and a construction hoarding with a rendering, 1928, 35mm black and white negative. Work 6582.
A dentist's waiting room, fluorescent light, wide angle, magazines. Work 6581.
A tinplate lunch box with a rocket beside a glowing reactor port, the late 1930s, neon sign photography, sodium light over a parking lot. Work 6580.
Formal group photograph of a uninvited wicker chair on a veranda beside a polo ground in 1934. Work 6579.
New German Cinema frame of a figure walking into the sea waiting for a telephone call, the mid 1960s. Work 6578.
1986, a lower third super with a phone number at the top of the hour, sixteen millimetre kinescope grain, interlace combing on fast movement. Work 6577.
A rotunda at Nottingham Goose Fair, the year the lido closed. Work 6576.
An uncorroborated index slip with a sighting number beside an overhead projector transparency, the summer of 1967, cropped and blown up frame. Work 6575.
A streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period. Work 6574.
1951, an unlisted parking deck with a slotted parapet with shuttering lines across the face, travel sketch in a notebook. Work 6573.
The factory made kettles afterwards: concept illustration for a pavilion of a boomerang shaped raygun gothic street corner at night, 1953. Work 6572.
A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display. Work 6571.
A stretch of Riccione seafront at noon at Mamaia, the holiday season, comic seaside postcard, white border with rounded corners. Work 6570.
A steam-wrapped blackened tower with a flare stack beside a loudspeaker on a lamp post, the generation after the collapse, transparency in a slide mount. Work 6569.
A brass railed skyscraper crown lit from below, the year the liner was launched, lacquer on a gessoed panel. Work 6568.
A neon sign spelling a word with no vowels, long exposure, fog. Work 6567.
A woman in a wrap dress nobody recognised, the turn of the 1980s, club flyer, Ektachrome 400. Work 6566.
The year before demolition, a board marked concrete wall along an access deck, dust and scratches from the archive, rise on the front standard. Work 6565.
1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment. Work 6564.
Kinetoscope strip of an office worker at a photocopier on the Molo at Sopot, the Constructivist years, duplicate transparency. Work 6563.
A ship model in a lobby vitrine, architectural elevation in ink and wash, the blueprints were lost in the move, flat even north light. Work 6562.
A certificate of authenticity in a frame and a filing cabinet as an exhibit, institutional critique wall text, tripod at a fixed height each time. Work 6561.
A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943. Work 6560.
Estate sale photograph of a slide curving into the shallow end on a stretch of Kool Deck, the off season, heavy over-exposure. Work 6559.
Watercolour architectural rendering of a second-hand chlorine floater shaped like a duck beside a kidney-shaped pool in the late 1960s. Work 6558.
Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 6557.
A scaffolded megastructure core with capsules removed shaded by deep overhangs, the post war years, Ezra Stoller style photograph. Work 6556.
A model of an atom on a plinth photographed as a robot's chest with a printed meter, toy box lid illustration, ink flaking at the folded edges. Work 6555.
A black tie brace of pheasants on a rail, the last season before the war, rotogravure supplement plate, bled off the page. Work 6554.
The jazz age, a stair balustrade of chromed tubing on a rendering board, photogravure plate, sepia toned print. Work 6553.