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Date
1885 – 1890
Material
wood; metal; skin
Catalogue Number
104.41.1010 a,b
Description
“Premo D” folding camera (4”x5” format) with a leather covered wooden frame. The camera has a leather handle centred on the top and held in place with brass keepers. The hinged front of the camera opens to lie flat and has a brass track (3.2 cm wide) running down the centre. The red leather bell…
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Title
Camera
Date
1885 – 1890
Material
wood; metal; skin
Dimensions
12.0 x 14.5 x 17.5 cm
Description
“Premo D” folding camera (4”x5” format) with a leather covered wooden frame. The camera has a leather handle centred on the top and held in place with brass keepers. The hinged front of the camera opens to lie flat and has a brass track (3.2 cm wide) running down the centre. The red leather bellows extend along the track and end with a wooden frame that holds a lens (missing) and a viewfinder. The camera also has hinged doors on the right side and on the back.b) Film plate holder loaded in the camera’s side chamber.
Subject
households
photography
hobbies
Credit
Gift of Unknown, 1968
Catalogue Number
104.41.1010 a,b
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Date
1889 – 1945
Material
metal; glass; leather;
Catalogue Number
104.41.0181
Description
Black leather and silver metal 4x6 Curt Bentzin Görlitz camera with a fold-down front panel that exposes the lens and bellows, a leather handle and two adjustment knobs on one side, a pop-up view finder on top, and fold-out leather flaps that access the exposure plate. Small metal levers throughout…
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Title
Camera
Date
1889 – 1945
Material
metal; glass; leather;
Dimensions
19.7 x 20.0 x 14.4 cm
Description
Black leather and silver metal 4x6 Curt Bentzin Görlitz camera with a fold-down front panel that exposes the lens and bellows, a leather handle and two adjustment knobs on one side, a pop-up view finder on top, and fold-out leather flaps that access the exposure plate. Small metal levers throughout allow different panels in the camera to open - three holes along the bottom [one on the body of the camera and two on the fold-down lens plate] allow the camera to be mounted on a tripod.
Subject
Crosby family
Abegweit
cameras
photography;
Credit
Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
Catalogue Number
104.41.0181
Images
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