Carte-de-Viste camera
Camera
Carte-de-Viste camera
ca. 1862
Wood, metal, and glass
Overall: 14 9/16 × 10 13/16 × 16 3/8 in. (37 × 27.5 × 41.6 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1974.0037.2590
DescriptionWet plate camera used by Disdéri, lens by Millet.
Inscriptions Engraved in metal, on lens board front, C: No. 57, \ ALEXIS MILLET \ à Paris.
Stamped in wood, back, T: IV
Printed in black ink, scalloped-oval label applied to ground glass frame, verso, TR: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER \ 55 [number inscribed in black ink, Cromer's hand, centered on label]
Stamped in wood, back, T: IV
Printed in black ink, scalloped-oval label applied to ground glass frame, verso, TR: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER \ 55 [number inscribed in black ink, Cromer's hand, centered on label]
