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Antique & 19th Century Cameras
Antique & 19th Century Cameras
Gordon Wet Plate Field Camera, late 1850s-1860s
Plate Holder Patent and Reference
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Illustration from the 1858 patent (number 21,829) submitted by Ebenezer Gordon.
This patent describes an improvement in wet plate holders with a new type of corner to hold plates.

c.1858 notice by Gordon about being a patentee of the 'double corner for plate holders.'
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