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Numerical matched Morrison lens pair. c.1872.

Champion Stereo, 1887
E. & H.T. Anthony & Company, NY.

Anthony Champion stereo camera with original nickeled EA lenses. c.1887.
Anthony Champion stereo with a pair of numerically matched Morrison landscape lenses.

Anthony was one of the earliest American manufacturers of cameras and photographic supplies.

The Champion series of tailboard cameras were manufactured from 1887 to 1906 and offered in formats from 4 x 5 to 8 x 10 inches. Construction was mahogany bodies attached to cherry bases.

I have two Champion Stereo cameras. One has a pair of factory suppied EA lenses in their original brightly polished nickel condition including push-in style washers used for apertures.

The second camera has a rare, number matched pair of 1872 Morrison stereo landscape lenses. The lens board is marked with a Des Moine, Iowa photographer's name: Chas E. Long. Given the lenses are much older than the camera, Long must have liked their optical quality.

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Included is an 1870s advertising card with a tipped in photo of Passiac Falls taken with Morrison's stereo lens.

Zimmerman Passiac Falls advertisement for Morrison's Stereo Lens.

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