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Sears Roebuck & Company. Folding Plate Camera. 4x5" folding plate camera with shutter built into the lens board. Late 1890s.
Wilkin-Welsh Camera Co. Onondaga No.6. 4x5 plate folding plate camera. c.1900-01.

Wilkin-Welsh Camera Co.

Onondaga No.6

Unidentified American Builder. 5x7" self-casing plate camera with unique rear extension. c.1899

Sears Roebuck & Co.

Delmar Folding Camera

Unidentified American Builder

Self-Casing Camera

Rochester Optical and Camera Co. Reversible Back Premo. Front and rear opening. 1897-c.1903.
Rochester Camera Mfg Co. The Rochester. Beautiful, 5x7" format early folding plate camera with shutter built into the lens board. 1892-93(?)

Rochester Camera Mfg Co.

The Rochester

Rochester Optical Company. Snappa Camera. Small 3¼ x 4¼" format with automated plate changing magazine. 1902-03.

Rochester Optical & Camera Co.

Reversible Back Premo

Rochester Optical Co.

Snappa Camera

Rochester Optical and Camera Co. Pocket Poco A. 1903.

Rochester Optical & Camera Co.

Pocket Poco A

Rochester Optical Company. Pony Premo E. 4x5 plate camera with shutter built into the front standard. 1898.

Rochester Optical Co.

Pony Premo E

Rochester Optical Company. Folding Premier Camera. Folding plate camera with clock-work shutter in the front standard. Holds three plate holders in the body. 1892-97?

Rochester Optical Co.

Folding Premier Camera

The Henry Clay Camera. Rare first version with sliding bed with Mathein shutter and Wale lens. 1891.
Henry Clay camera with extended back. The back holds a mahogany case filled with up to six plate holders. Proch Triplex shutter. 1896
Henry Clay Regular Camera. Unique custom order with brown body leather and two lenses. 1896.

American Optical Company, Scovill & Adams

The Henry Clay Camera

American Optical Company, Scovill & Adams

Henry Clay Camera-ext. back

American Optical Company, Scovill & Adams

Henry Clay Regular Camera 

Scovill's Henry Clay 2nd. Rare model with Mathein (attributed) shutter. Back stores up to three plate holders. c.1896-87.
E. & H.T. Anthony Ascot Cycle No.1. 4x5" format. Shutter built into the lens board. c.1899.
E. & H.T. Anthony Ascot Cycle No.2. 5x7" format. Shutter built into the lens board. c.1899.

American Optical Company, Scovill & Adams

Scovill's Henry Clay 2nd

E. & H.T. Anthony

Ascot Cycle No.1

E. & H.T. Anthony

Ascot Cycle No.2

The Marlborough Camera, c.1898. E. & H.T. Anthony & Company, NY.
Bell Camera Company. Bell's Straight Working Panorama Camera. Single lens making multiple format images. c.1912.
Blair Camera Company. Folding Hawk-Eye Cameras: No.1 & No.2. Early ebonized models. 1892

E. & H.T. Anthony

Marlbourgh

Bell Camera Co.

Bell's Straight Working Panorama Camera

Blair Camera Co.

Folding Hawk-Eye Cameras

The 5 x 7 Special Folding Hawk-eye, c.1898. Blair Camera Company, Boston, Mass.

Blair Camera Co.

5 x 7 Special Folding Hawk-Eye

Blair Camera Co.

No.3 Combination Hawk-Eye

No.3 Combination Hawk-Eye, c.1904. Blair Camera Company, NY.

Blair Camera Co.

No.3 Focusing Weno Hawk-Eye

Blair Camera Company. No.3 Focusing Weno Hawk-eye. Combination camera for 3¼ x 4¼" plates and roll film. Back lifts up to use plates. c.1902-03
Bullard Camera Company. Folding Magazine Camera, Series B. c1898

Bullard Camera Co.

Folding Magazine Camera, Series B

Century Camera Company.Grand Camera. 5x7" reversible format. c.1901.
Folding Montauk Style I, c.1899. G. Gennert Camera Company, NY.

Century Camera Co.

Grand Camera

G. Gennert Camera Co.

Folding Montauk Style I

William C. Gibbs. Gibbs Camera. Very rare maker in Oakland, California. Only three known examples in different formats. c.1888
Gundlach Optical Company. Korona Special Presentation Camera. Unique custom body camera with leather motifs. Unknown if made by factory or a craftsman. 1903

Gibbs (William C.)

Gibbs Cameras

Gundlach Optical Co.

Korona Special Presentation Camera

Imperial Camera and Mfg Co. No. 30 Triple Extension Camera. 1901-02.
Eastman Kodak Company. Flat Folding Kodak, 4x5 roll film. Extremely rare, only 8 known. Made exclusively for the U.K. market. 1895
Eastman Kodak Company. No.4 Folding Kodak Camera. First 4x5" version with Eastman's Wing Shutter. 1890.
Eastman Kodak Company. No.4 Screen Focus Camera. Camera for 4x5" plates and roll film using a swing-away back. Only 4,000 orderd. c.1907

Eastman Kodak Co.

Flat Folding Kodak

Eastman Kodak Co.

No.4 Folding Kodak Camera

Eastman Kodak Co.

No.4 Screen Focus Camera

Kozy Camera Company. Chase Folding Magazine Camera. 4x5"plates in an auto-changing magazine that drops from the bottom of the body. Rare pre-patent model. c.1899

Kozy Camera Co.

Chase Folding Magazine Camera

Kozy Camera Company. Kozy (Book Form) Cameras. Rare, unique design that opens like a book; the bellows open like pages. 1897-98

Kozy Camera Co.

Kozy (Book Form) Cameras

Milbourn Korona_Wix.jpg

Milburn Camera Co.

Korona Hand Camera

Monroe Camera Company. Vest Pocket Monroe Camera. Very small, bedless, strut folding design. 2 x 2½" format. c.1898.

Monroe Camera Co.

Vest Pocket Monroe Camera

Pearsall_01-w-portrait_Wix.jpg

Pearsall (Frank)

Compact Camera

Reichenbach, Morey & Will. Alta Automatic. Rare 4x5 folding plate camera with an automatic mechanism to erect the front standard. c.1898

Reichenbach, Morey & Will

Alta Automatic

Self-Casing Cameras

Imperial Camera and Mfg Co.

No. 30 Triple Extension Camera

"The theory of photography can be learnt in an hour; the first ideas of how to go about it in a day....What can't be learnt....is the feeling for light-the artistic appreciation of effects produced by different or combined sources; it's the understanding of this or that effect following the lines of the features which requires your artistic perception." Nadar, 1857

Premo Supreme, 1902 - 08. Rochester Optical Company. Rochester, NY.

Rochester Optical Co.

Premo Supreme

Blair Camera Co.

Tourist Hawk-Eye

Blair Tourist Hawkeye, 1898 - 1894. Blair Camera Co. Boston, MA.
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