'The Instantograph' folding bellows field or stand camera

Made:: 1889 in Birmingham

maker:: J Lancaster and Son

'The Instantograph' folding bellows field or stand camera for negatives 3 1/4 4 1/4". Has double extension, square leather bellows, double swing back, reversing back, rising front and rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Lancaster & Son 'Wide Angle Rectigraph' lens. Of mahogany with brass fittings. Lancaster, c.1889

Details

Category:: Photographic Technology

Object Number:: 1979-559/605

Materials:: brass (copper, zinc alloy), glass, leather and mahogany (wood)

type:: plate camera

taxonomy:

tools and equipment
equipment by process
image making equipment
camera (function)

credit:: The Arthur Frank Collection

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