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View and Field Cameras
"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
American (Unknown):
1/4-plate Presentation Camera
American Optical Co:
Flammang's Patent (rear)
European Cameras
J. Lancaster & Son:
1893 Instantograph Patent
J. Lancaster & Son:
1888 Patent 'Le Merveilleux'
Morley (W.):
Wetplate Field Camera
Between 1863 and 1866, Samuel Bourne made three trips to the Himalayas. He was encumbered with an unbelievable
cargo of photographic equipment and plates, not to mention the other necesseties of life appropriate to daily existance
of an Englishman abroad; 'sporting requisites', books, odd pieces of furniture and an ample supply of Hennessy's brandy.
American Optical Co:
Flammang's Patent (front focusing)
American Optical Co:
Mignon Bicyclists' Camera
Anthony (E. & H.T.):
Bicycle (Bijou) Camera
Anthony (E. & H.T.):
Patent Novelette (round face)
Anthony (E. & H.T.):
Victor
Blair Camera Co:
Lucidograph
G. Gennert Co:
Penny Picture
Horsman (E.I.):
Eclipse Cameras
Quta Camera & Plate Co:
Quta Photo-Machine
Rochester Optical Co:
New Model View
Schaub (Jacob):
Multiplying Camera
Scovill & Adams Co:
Compact View
S. Wing & Co:
Ajax Multiplying Camera
American Optical Co:
St. Louis Reversible Back Camera
Anthony (E. & H.T.):
Patent Bijou
Anthony (E. & H.T.):
Patent Novelette (square face)
August Herzog:
American Gem No.2
Blair Tourograph & Dry Plate:
Combination Camera with Extension
G. Gennert Co: Montauk
Flexo-Front Multiplying Camera
Palmer & Longking:
Lewis-Style Daguerreotype
Rochester Optical Co:
Commodore
Rochester Optical Co:
Peerless Camera
Scovill Manufacturing Co:
Rev Back Acme View Box
Smith (Jas. H.) & Co:
Sunflower Multiplying Camera
S. Wing & Co:
View Camera
American Optical Co:
Star View Camera
Anthony (E. & H.T.):
Clifton Camera
Anthony (E. & H.T.):
Phantom
Blair Camera Co:
Reversible (Combination) Back
Blair Tourograph & Dry Plate:
Tourograph (original model)
Gordon (E. - attributed):
Wetplate Tailboard View
Putnam (Franklin):
Marvel
Rochester Optical Co:
Midget Camera
Rochester Optical Co:
Universal Camera
Scovill & Manufacturing Co:
Waterbury View
Stockwell (Nathan):
View Camera
Unknown Maker:
American Field View Camera
Ottewill, Collis & Co:
Improved Kinnear Camera
Unknown Maker:
Chambre de Voyage
Shew (James F.):
Xit Cameras
Underwood (E. & T.):
Instantograph