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1/4-plate tailboard presentation camera made by the American Optical Company,
American Optical Company, Scovill Mfg. Co. Flammang's Patent Revolving Back Camera. c.1886-98
American Optical Company, Scovill Mfg. Co. Flammang's Patent Revolving Back Camera (tailboard). c.1883-98

American (Unknown)
1/4-plate Presentation Camera

American Optical Company, Scovill Mfg. Co.

Flammang's Patent Revolving Back Camera (front focus)

American Optical Company, Scovill Mfg. Co.

Flammang's Patent Revolving Back Camera (tailboard)

American View Cameras

American Optical Company, Scovill Mfg. Co. Mignon Bicyclists' Camera. c.1886
American Optical Company, Scovill Mfg. Co. St. Louis Reversible Back Camera. c.1887
American Optical Company, Scovill & Adams Co. Star View Camera. c.1890-98

American Optical Company, Scovill Mfg. Co.

Mignon Bicyclists' Camera

American Optical Company, Scovill Mfg. Co.

St. Louis Reversible Back Camera

American Optical Company, Scovill & Adams Co.

Star View Camera

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Bicycle (Bijou) Camera. Very rare 1/4-plate tailboard. 1885 - c.1895
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Bicycle (Bijou) Camera. Very rare quarter plate tailboard. 1885-95
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Clifton Camera. c.1898 - 1906

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

Bicycle (Bijou) Camera

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

Patent Bijou Camera

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

Clifton Camera

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Patent Novelette Camera. 1886-94
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Novelette (square face). 1880s
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Phantom Camera. 1888

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

Patent Novelette (round)

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

Novelette (square)

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

Phantom Camera

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Victor Camera. c.1889-97.
August Herzog. American Gem No.2. Very rare camera made for education and teaching. 1881
Blair Camera Co. Reversible Back Camera. Outfit with 5x7 expansion back, two lenses, extra ground glass and plate holders. Extra long focusing rails. 1890s

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

Victor Camera

August Herzog
American Gem No.2

Blair Camera Co.

Reversible Back Camera

Blair Camera Co. Lucidograph Cameras.
Tourograph (original), c.1880-82 The Blair Tourograph & Dryplate Camera Company, Boston.
Blair Tourograph & Dry Plate Co. Combination Camera. Early tailboard with 5x7" expansion back. Pillbox lens. 1882

Blair Camera Co.

Lucidograph Cameras

Blair Tourograph & Dry Plate Co.

Tourograph Camera

Blair Tourograph & Dry Plate Co.

Combination Camera

"For my part, I may say that before I commenced photography I did not see half the beauties in nature that I do now, and the glory and power of a precious landscape has often passed before me and left but a feeble impression on my untutored mind; but it will never be so again." Samuel Bourne, 1864

G. Gennert Co. Penny Picture Camera. 1880s - 1890s
G. Gennert Co. Montauk Flexo-Front Multiplying Camera. Multiple image camera with a tambour mounted lens. 1912.
Ebenezer Gordon (attributed). 11x14" format field wetplate camera in the tailboard design. Late 1850s to 1860s.

G. Gennert Co.
Penny Picture Camera

G. Gennert Co.

Montauk Flexo-Front Multiplying Camera

Gordon (E. - attributed)
Wetplate Tailboard View

Horsman (E.I.). Eclipse Cameras, No.2, No.3, & No.33. Simple, inexpensive tailboard cameras. c.1888 - 1900.
Palmer & Longking. Lewis-Style Daguerreotype. Includes original P&L radial drive lens and bed has factory marking. c.1853-54.
Putnam (Franklin). Marvel Camera. Tailboard camera that appears to be a remarked Scovill Favorite. 1880s.

Horsman (E.I.)
Eclipse Cameras

Palmer & Longking
Lewis-Style Daguerreotype

Putnam (Franklin)
Marvel Camera

Quta Photo Machine, c.1904-11. Quta Camera & Plate Company, NY.
Rochester Optical Co. Midget Camera. This example includes its original rotatary shutter with rapid rectilinear lens. Folds like an English compact camera. 1890 - 97.

Quta Camera & Plate Co.
Quta Photo-Machine

Rochester Optical Co.
Midget Camera

Rochester Optical Co. Peerless Camera. c.1887.
Rochester Optical Co. Universal Camera. Enhanced camera with Mathein shutter, Wale lens, W.H. Walmsley brass viewfinder, and Thorton Pickard focal plane shutter. c.1892.
Multiplying Camera, c.1900. Jacob Schaub. Logan, Utah.

Rochester Optical Co.
Peerless Camera

Rochester Optical Co.

Universal Camera

Schaub (Jacob)
Multiplying Camera

Scovill Manufacturing Co. Waterbury View Camera. 4x5 version with undrilled lensboard. 1885-86.
Compact View, c.1892. Scovill & Adams Co., NY.
Smith (Jas. H.) & Co. Sunflower Multiplying Camera. Unusual multiplying camera for making 6, 8, 12, 18, 24, or 36 small negatives on one 5 x 7 inch plate. c.1903.

Scovill Manufacturing Co.
Waterbury View Camera

Scovill & Adams Co.
Compact View

Smith (Jas. H.) & Co.
Sunflower Multiplying Camera

Stockwell (Nathan) View Camera. The only known example of a camera made by Nathan Stockwell (c.1875). 1/4-plate modular system camera with George W. Parker's plate changing system. c.1875.

Stockwell (Nathan)
View Camera

S. Wing & Co. Ajax Multiplying Camera. For the inexpensive production of 15 images on a single 5x7 ferrotype plate and up to 28 exposures with internal masks. c.1900
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S. Wing & Co.
Ajax Multiplying Camera

S. Wing & Co.

Field View Camera

European View Cameras

The 1893 Instantograph Patent Camera. J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham, England.
J. Lancaster & Son. 1888 Patent "Le Merveilleux".
Morley (W.) Wetplate Field Camera. Mid-1860s.

J. Lancaster & Son
1893 Instantograph Patent

J. Lancaster & Son

1888 Patent "Le Merveilleux"

Morley (W.)
Wetplate Field Camera

Unknown American Maker
Field View Camera

Unknown American Maker. Field View Camera. Heavily built front focusing field camera. 1890s
Ottewill, Collis & Co. Improved Kinnear Camera. 1860s.
Shew (James F.). Two Xit Cameras. late 1890s to early 1900s.
Instanto Underwood's Patent, c.1896. E. & T. Underwood, Birmingham, England.

Ottewill, Collis & Co.
Improved Kinnear Camera

Shew (James F.)
Xit Cameras

Underwood (E. & T.)

The "Instanto" Underwood's Patent

Unknown Maker. Chambre de Voyage. Also known as a "Continental - styled View Camera" or simply "Continental View." 1890s.

Unknown Maker
Chambre de Voyage

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