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Argus 12-Shot Repeating Camera, c.1890
1890s Reference and Patent

Argus 12-Shot Repeating Camera. 1890s reference.

c.1890 advertisement from the Youth's Companion.

Page one of the Argus Repeating Camera patent.
Page two of the Argus Repeating Camera patent.

Figures 1 and 2 on the first patent page illustrate the camera as it was produced in 1890.

W. B. Luce also considered different designs for the camera (figures 4 and 5). Luce assigned his patent to Perry Mason & Company.

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