Full plate wet-plate camera
Camera
Full plate wet-plate camera
1883
Wood, metal, cloth, and leather
Overall (camera): 12 3/8 × 11 1/4 × 8 7/8 in. (31.5 × 28.5 × 22.5 cm)
Overall (each tripod leg): 55 5/16 × 1 3/16 × 13/16 in. (140.5 × 3 × 2 cm)
Paper (Cromer's note): 1 7/16 × 3 1/4 in. (3.7 × 8.2 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1974.0037.2222
DescriptionWet plate camera with full plate holder and tripod legs. Two adaptor inserts (for 9x12cm and 13x18cm) are stored in the 18x24cm plate holder.
Inscriptions Stamped in wood, interior lens board, BC: III
Stamped in wood, interior lens standard, BC: III
[no inscriptions on tripod]
Inscribed in black ink (Cromer's hand) on paper tag (see component), recto, C: Collection phtographique \ de Gab. Cromer \ Le Simon, \ appareil à escamotage \ inventé par Ducos du Hauron \ 2-225 [numerals inscribed in pencil, museum hand] [This note found with Technology Index Card 771.312 / AC168 may or may not belong with this camera]
Stamped in wood, interior lens standard, BC: III
[no inscriptions on tripod]
Inscribed in black ink (Cromer's hand) on paper tag (see component), recto, C: Collection phtographique \ de Gab. Cromer \ Le Simon, \ appareil à escamotage \ inventé par Ducos du Hauron \ 2-225 [numerals inscribed in pencil, museum hand] [This note found with Technology Index Card 771.312 / AC168 may or may not belong with this camera]
