Chemistry box with chemistry bottles for Giroux daguerreotype camera
Equipment
Chemistry box with chemistry bottles for Giroux daguerreotype camera
1939
Mahogany, glass, cork, and metal
Overall (closed): 8 1/8 × 12 1/16 × 8 9/16 in. (20.7 × 30.6 × 21.8 cm)
Overall (open): 4 1/16 × 12 × 17 in. (10.3 × 30.5 × 43.2 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1978.1631.0007
DescriptionBox with hinged lid contains four chemistry bottles. Chemistry box with chemistry bottles for Giroux daguerreotype camera.
Inscriptions Stamped in wood, front of box, RC: G.CROMER
Stamped in wood, front of lid, RC: G.CROMER
Inscribed in pencil, inside back of lid, BR: 18
Printed in black ink, label applied to left bottle, C: LE DAGUERREOTYPE \ Solution d'Hyposulfite \ chez Alph. Giroux et Cie. \ Rue du Coq St Honoré, No7, P[aris]
Printed in black ink, label applied to middle left bottle, C: [D]AGUERREOTYPE \ [Hu]ile d'Olive. \ Alph. Giroux et Cie. \ [Rue du C]oq St Honoré, No 7 Paris
Printed in black ink, label applied to middle right bottle, C: LE DAGUERREOTYPE \ Acide Nitrique \ étendu d'eau. \ chez Alph. Giroux et Cie \ Rue du Coq St. Honoré,
Printed in black ink, label applied to right bottle, C: LE DAGUERREO[TYPE] \ Ponce Surfine. \ chez A[lp]h Girou[x] \ Rue du Co[q St] Hon[oré]
Stamped in wood, front of lid, RC: G.CROMER
Inscribed in pencil, inside back of lid, BR: 18
Printed in black ink, label applied to left bottle, C: LE DAGUERREOTYPE \ Solution d'Hyposulfite \ chez Alph. Giroux et Cie. \ Rue du Coq St Honoré, No7, P[aris]
Printed in black ink, label applied to middle left bottle, C: [D]AGUERREOTYPE \ [Hu]ile d'Olive. \ Alph. Giroux et Cie. \ [Rue du C]oq St Honoré, No 7 Paris
Printed in black ink, label applied to middle right bottle, C: LE DAGUERREOTYPE \ Acide Nitrique \ étendu d'eau. \ chez Alph. Giroux et Cie \ Rue du Coq St. Honoré,
Printed in black ink, label applied to right bottle, C: LE DAGUERREO[TYPE] \ Ponce Surfine. \ chez A[lp]h Girou[x] \ Rue du Co[q St] Hon[oré]
