Photographie panoramique de Koch & Wilz

Photographie panoramique de Koch & Wilz

Camera

Camera by Koch & Wilz

Maker
Georges-Laurent Koch, German, b. ca. 1810; Antoine Wilz

Lens by Alphonse Darlot

Maker
French, active ca. 1860s–1910

Photographie panoramique de Koch & Wilz

ca. 1868
Wood, metal, leather, paper, and glass
Overall (with lens): 14 11/16 × 8 1/4 × 14 15/16 in. (37.3 × 21 × 38 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1978.1464.0001
DescriptionWet Plate Panoramic camera, 8 x 20 inch, with Darlot lens # 31288. Koch & Wilz Photographie Panoramique.
Inscriptions Engraved in plate affixed to camera front standard, TC: KOCH & WILZ \ Paris
Engraved in metal, lens barrel, RC: Darlot Opticien \ Paris \ AD [monogram] \ 31288 \ B. F. & Co.

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