Mélanochromoscope
Camera
Louis Ducos du Hauron
French, 1837–1920
Mélanochromoscope
1899
Wood, metal, and glass
Overall (camera): 8 7/16 × 2 3/8 × 6 1/2 in. (21.5 × 6 × 16.5 cm)
Overall (correcting prism): 1 3/4 × 2 3/8 × 1 5/8 in. (4.5 × 6 × 4.2 cm)
Paper (Cromer's note): 2 3/4 × 1 9/16 in. (7 × 4 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1974.0037.1007
DescriptionThree-color camera and viewer, with correcting prism.
Inscriptions Engraved in metal and inked in black, plate affixed to camera front, C: LE MÉLANOCHROMOSCOPE \ Invention de L. DUCOS DU HAURON \ Appareil pour la Photographie des Couleurs \ Breveté France-Etranger \ L. LESUEUR & DUCOS DU HAURON \ Constructeurs
Stamped in leather, camera front, TC: 128
Stamped in wood, lens board, interior, TC: 6
Stamped in wood, lens board, interior, RC: 128
Stamped in wood, correcting prism, bottom, TC: 5
Stamped in wood, correcting prism, bottom, RC: 130
Stamped in wood, image holder, front, C: 121 \ 4
Stamped in wood, filter holder, front, C: 128 \ 2
Stamped in wood, lens compartment, front, TC: 128
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on piece of graph paper, C: Monocle \ à voir \ les cartes de visite \ (époque Disdéri) [refers to prism only]
Stamped in leather, camera front, TC: 128
Stamped in wood, lens board, interior, TC: 6
Stamped in wood, lens board, interior, RC: 128
Stamped in wood, correcting prism, bottom, TC: 5
Stamped in wood, correcting prism, bottom, RC: 130
Stamped in wood, image holder, front, C: 121 \ 4
Stamped in wood, filter holder, front, C: 128 \ 2
Stamped in wood, lens compartment, front, TC: 128
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on piece of graph paper, C: Monocle \ à voir \ les cartes de visite \ (époque Disdéri) [refers to prism only]
