Tourist Pocket camera

Tourist Pocket camera

Camera

American Optical Co. (Scovill Mfg Co)

American, ca. 1867–1900

lens by Alphonse Darlot

Maker
French, active ca. 1860s–1910

Tourist Pocket camera

ca. 1892
Wood, metal, leather, and glass
Overall (open): 9 1/4 × 7 1/2 × 11 9/16 in. (23.5 × 19 × 29.3 cm)
Gift of the estate of A. E. Marshall and Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1981.1296.0005
Description5 x 7-inch camera with red bellows and ground glass. Darlot lens serial #11798 currently mounted on this camera.
Inscriptions Engraved in metal, lens barrel, TC: Darlot, Paris \ B.F. & Co.
Engraved in metal, lens barrel, BC: AD [monogram] 11798
[no inscriptions on camera]

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