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Multiple Lens Cameras

"It is a novel experiment to illustrate a book of travels with photographs, a few years back so perishable, and so difficult to reproduce. But the art is now so far advanced, that we can multiply the copies with the same facility, and print them with the same materials as in the case of woodcuts or engravings" John Thomson, 1873

Henry Clay Stereoscopic Camera. 1892-99.
Anthony Champion Stereo.
E. & H.T. Anthony Climax Multiplying Camera with four lenses. 1880s - 1890s

American Optical Company, Scovill & Adams

Henry Clay Stereoscopic Camera

Anthony (E. & H.T.)
Champion Stereo

Anthony (E. & H.T.)

Climax Multiplying Camera

E. & H.T. Anthony Stereo Solograph, c.1902-07(?)
Flammang’s Patent Revolving Back Stereo Camera. 1880s. American Optical Company, Scovill Mfg. Co., NY.

American Optical Co., Scovill Mfg. Co.

Flammang’s Patent Revolving Back Stereo Camera

Blair Stereo Hawk-eye No.2.

Anthony (E. & H.T.)
Stereo Solograph

Blair Camera Company

Stereo Hawk-Eye No.2

Butcher Royal Mail Camera with 15 lenses. 1907-15
Eastman Kodak Company. No.2 Stereo Brownie.
No.5 Folding Kodak Stereo. Original model with lever focusing and single lens. 1893

Butcher (W. Butcher & Sons)

Royal Mail Stamp Camera

Eastman Kodak Company

No.2 Stereo Brownie

Eastman Kodak Company

No.5 Folding Kodak Stereo

J. Lancaster & Son Lancaster Stereo Instantograph with blue leather bellows. c.1891
Ferrotype Bon Ton View Box, 1870s. Scovill Manufacturing Company, NY.
American Optical Co. - John Stock wet plate stereo. 1860s.

J. Lancaster & Son

Stereo Instantograph

Scovill Manufacturing Co.

Ferrotype Bon Ton View Box

Stock (John) - Am. Optical

Stereo Wet Plate

John Stock wet plate multiplying camera box with four lenses. Late 1860s.
4-tube Carte de Visite Wet Plate Camera, 1860s. Unknown American Maker (possibly Samuel Peck).
Unknown American Maker 9-tube gem wet plate camera. 1860s

Stock (John) - Am. Optical

Multiplying Camera Box

Unknown American Maker

4-tube Carte de Visite Wet Plate Camera

Unknown American Maker

9-tube Gem Wet Plate Camera

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