Buron camera
Camera

Buron

Maker
French, ca. 1840s

Buron camera

1842
Wood, metal, and glass
Overall: 6 5/16 × 5 1/4 × 8 1/16 in. (16 × 13.3 × 20.5 cm)
Paper (Cromer's note): 1 5/16 × 3 7/8 in. (3.3 × 9.8 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
DescriptionDaguerreotype camera for quarter plate format, with ground glass, no lens.
Inscriptions Carved in wood, on dark slide, TC: IIII
Carved in wood, inside rear of camera, BC: IIII
Carved in wood, inside light trap door, top of camera, C: IIII
Inscribed in black ink (Cromer's hand) on graph paper (see component), recto, C: Chambre noire de Buron \ Voir "Description de nouveaux \ daguerréotype", Buron, 1842, \ Page 56, fig.3 [no inscriptions on verso]

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