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Set of stainless steel WWII photography negative developing tanks for developing rolls of 4” x 5” Kodak film negatives from an Army Aircraft Folmer Graflex K-21 Reconnaissance Camera, surplus from bomber belly. Includes four tanks, several lids, and winding spools & cranks to evenly develop the entire roll of film.

Nine piece set, all except case is stainless steel, all very good condition except case:

2 nesting tanks, approximately 11 ½” deep, 17” long, 9” wide.
1 Within the inner tank are the cranks and spools to wind the film.
1 All fit within black case (one latch works), with carrying handle.

2 nesting tanks, approximately 12” deep, 17” long, 9” wide.
2 full slide-on lid for each tank.

1 tray, approximately 3 ¾” deep, 17 ½” long, and 9 ¼: wide, just large enough for any of the tanks to fit within, consolidating all as two packages for shipping & storage.

The smaller (inner when nested) tank with cranks appears to be for developing film, the outer tank for fixing the negatives, the other two tanks for washing the negatives before drying.

My father bought these items after the war. Leaning out of a Piper Cub plane, hand-held his K-21 camera (now in a museum) to take hundreds of aerial photographs in the Tidewater, Virginia area. Then he used these tanks at home to develop the film before using the negatives in an enlarger in order to produce aerial photographs.
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