X-ray Shutters

X-ray Shutters

Photograph

Basil C. Levine

Maker
American, 1928–2011

X-ray Shutters

ca. 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11 7/8 × 9 15/16 in. (30.2 × 25.2 cm)
Gift of Jonathan Levine, 2024
2024.0041.0028
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on paper taped to verso and folded to recto BC: X-RAY SHUTTERS -- Richard Corbett tests the shutter of a collimator in the \ process of manufacture at the Picker Corporation plant in Highland Heights, Ohio. \ When completely built, a collimator is that part of an x-ray system that limits a \ beam of light and confines it to the area of the body under examination. Two nearly \ completed units are in the foreground. \ -0- \ From: John A. DeMilia \ Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. \ 380 Madison Avenue (212) 986-6100 \ New York, New York 10017 \ For: PICKER CORPORATION \ Slug: X-RAY SHUTTERS \ Neg. No.: PIC 4093-36 and PIC 4093-38 \ 22481
Printed on verso OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
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