Folding camera

Folding camera

Camera

Unidentified

Maker

Folding camera

ca. 1880
Wood, metal, cloth, leather, and glass
Overall: 7 7/8 × 7 × 6 11/16 in. (20 × 17.8 × 17 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1974.0037.1845
DescriptionHalf plate (13x18cm) camera with landscape lens (similar to J. F. Shew & Co. Eclipse) without holder.
Inscriptions Stamped in wood, camera frame near door clasp, RC: 4
Scratched in wood, camera frame, LC: II
Scratched in wood, camera frame, RC: III

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