Photake
Camera

Chicago Camera Co.

Maker
American, 1886

Photake

1896
Metal, glass, and wood
Overall (camera): 2 9/16 × 4 3/16 × 4 1/2 in. (6.5 × 10.6 × 11.5 cm)
Overall (original wooden box): 4 15/16 × 5 7/16 × 3 1/8 in. (12.5 × 13.8 × 8 cm)
Overall (dry plate box): 2 7/16 × 2 7/16 × 1/2 in. (6.2 × 6.2 × 1.3 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1974.0084.0070
DescriptionMetal box camera for five 2 x 2 in. dry plates with lens and unopened box of dry plates, in their original wooden box.
Inscriptions Printed in black ink, label applied to wooden box front, C: Trade Mark. \ PHOTAKE \ Patented September 29, 1896. \ 5 PICTURES \ 2 Inches by \ 2 Inches \ NEGATIVES \ Made on \ Glass Plates \ CONTENTS \ One Photake Camera Twelve Blue Print Papers \ Six Photake Dry Plates Ruby Paper \ Developing and Fixing Chemicals Book of Directions \ PRICE $2.50 \ CHICAGO CAMERA CO., 56 FIFTH AVE., CHICAGO.
Printed in black ink, label applied to plate box top, C: Photake \ Extra \ Rapid \ --- \ Dry Plates.
Printed in black ink, label applied to edge of plate box, C: 1-2 Dox. 2 1/2 x 2 1/32 No. [illegible] \ Sensitometer, [illegible]
Printed in black ink, label applied to bottom of plate box, T: These Plates are very sensitive. -Open in ruby \ light only.

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