Stereoscopic Camera

Wood framed folding stereoscopic camera by J.T. Chapman, c.1880. This camera was popular for amateur use. It was constructed on the principles of Brewster and Dancer. The use of the 3" focus 'Platystigmat' wide angle lenses made the camera less bulky and could also aid the construction of a camera at a cheap price. With extra lens panel and lens it could be used as a half-plate camera.

Model B Cine Camera

16mm model B cine camera by Eastman Kodak Co. Metal body with Morocco leather covering (black). Hand wound with one Kodak lens.

Stamped metal label on top of case: "Made in U.S.A. at Rochester by Eastman Kodak Co. Cine Kodak Model B. K.A., f3. 5 Footage". Stamped metal label on front near lens: "Use portrait attachment for close ups. From 2 to 5 feet.". Stamped metal label on front below lens: Explains which settings to use in different light conditions. Stamped on film spool: "Kodak Made in England"

Model B Cine Camera

16mm model B cine camera by Eastman Kodak Co. Metal body with Morocco leather covering (black). Hand wound with one Kodak lens.

Stamped metal label on top of case: "Made in U.S.A. at Rochester by Eastman Kodak Co. Cine Kodak Model B. K.A., f3. 5 Footage". Stamped metal label on front near lens: "Use portrait attachment for close ups. From 2 to 5 feet.". Stamped metal label on front below lens: Explains which settings to use in different light conditions. Stamped on film spool: "Kodak Made in England"

Kodak Cine Camera film

16mm cine camera film. Stamped on film spool: "Kodak Made in England".

Tenax Folding Plate Camera

Tenax folding plate camera by Goerz; a popular camera for the advanced amateur of this period.

"Scott's Patent" Plate Camera

The Manchester/Scott's patent plate camera, c.1890. Mahogany camera with brass fittings. Rise and cross panel Wray 'Platystigmat' wide angle 4" focus with disc stops rack focus. Various reinforcing details suggests Billcliffe manufacture. With one D/D slide side struts slotted according to the Chapman/Scott patent to provide swing back.

Label on side of camera: "J.T. Chapman, Photographic Chemist, Albert Square, Manchester". Label on front of camera below lens mount: "Scott's patent, No. 12389"

"The Artists" Plate Camera

The 'Artists' bellows plate camera made by J.L. Lane of London in around 1880. Sold by J.T. Chapman Ltd, Manchester. Walnut wood camera, square bellows rise and cross front. (Lane type) swing back. (lane type) folding side member. Rack focus, single extension. Dallmeyer 5" (13 cm) anastigmat. Disc stops pneumatic drop shutter. This is a small hand/stand camera made to the same specification as the Y1966.28.11.1 by Lane. The Lane features are the folding base and side plate and the lock screws for the rising and cross. Also the shaped brass plate at the rear controlling the swing back.

Zeiss Ikon Foldable Plate Camera

ICA 'Ideal' 250/7 drop-front bellows plate camera, made by Zeiss Ikon, 1929. Folding, all metal and leather camera with rise and cross front double extension. Mirror and frame view finders. Single metal dark slides. Lens panels to take various lenses with special Zeiss fitting. No lens. This camera shows the beginning of design in aluminum with made for smaller dimensions and greater mechanical accuracy together with facilities for interchangeable lenses. This type of camera was very popular with advanced amateurs.

No. 3A Autographic Folding Camera

No 3A Autographic folding camera , Eastman Kodak c. 1925. Fitted with a Taylor Hobson 12" f6.3 Anastigmat in Compur shutter. Autographic model giving a postcard size on 122 size film. Metal body, leather covered.

Magazine Box Camera

Fixed-focus, hand-held magazine box camera with a leather plate changing bag by Samuels.

drop-front bellows plate camera

Hand or stand camera with brass fittings made to Billcliffe method of swing back. Wray 3" Platystigmat lens, one dark slide. Mahogany wood. The smallest size of hand/stand camera made by Billcliffe. considered by him to be a 'Miniature'.

Small format plate camera

Small format plate camera made by Joshua Billcliff in around 1900 and sold by J.T. Chapman Ltd of Manchester.

'Merlin' Miniature Camera

'Merlin' sub-miniature metal camera, made by United Optical Instruments.

Prototype stereoscopic camera

Prototype stereoscopic camera, designed and made by John Benjamin Dancer, Manchester, c.1852.

"The Manchester" Plate Camera

The 'Manchester' plate camera designed and sold by J. T. Chapman Ltd in around 1883; it was probably made by Joshua Billcliff.

Dallmeyer Camera Lens

Camera lens made by J.H. Dallmeyer Ltd of London.

Quarter Plate Camera

Double-extension bellows hand-stand camera with 1/4 inch plate.

Roller-Blind Shutter

Roller-blind shutter with original box made by Thornton-Pickard Limited.

Tailboard Plate Camera

Folding bellows tailboard camera by Meagher, with Dallmeyer lens.

"The British" Plate Camera

"The British" plate camera, and separate lens, made by J.T. Chapman Limited.

"The British" Plate Camera

"The British" plate camera, made by J.T. Chapman Limited.

"The British" Plate Camera

Camera lens for "The British" plate camera, made by J.T. Chapman Limited.

Billcliff "Royalty" Plate Camera

'Royalty' bellows plate camera made by Joshua Billcliff of Manchester.

Inscription engraved on brass pointer at side: "Royalty". Inscription carved inside camera back (at base of plate holder): "1 C". Inscription handwritten on reverse of camera back: "Chapman". Inscription engraved on two lenses: "Ross, London, 12818, 12819". Stamped label on top of camera body: "J.T. Chapman, Photographic Chemist, Albert Square, Manchester"

Chapman 'British' camera made

Chapman 'British' camera made by Joshua Billcliff of Manchester in around 1890.

Lane Tailboard Camera

A "Chapman's model" plate camera, made by J.L. Lane.

"Bijou" Box Camera

"Bijou" cardboard box plate camera.

"Bee" Magazine Camera

"Bee" wooden magazine box camera by W. Butcher & Sons, with a Wray lens.

Ensign E20 Roll-Film Box Camera

An Ensign E20 box roll-film camera, made by Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Company Limited

Ensign "Klito" Magazine Camera

An Ensign-brand "Klito" No. 0 magazine camera, with 12 plate holders, made by Houghtons Limited.

box roll-film camera

No 4 'Regular' box roll film camera made by Eastman Kodak Ltd, Rochester, USA in around 1895.

Pocket Kodak Box Camera

Pocket Kodak box camera by Eastman Kodak Company

The 'British' Miller's patent magazine camera made by J.T. Chapman Ltd

The 'British' Miller's patent magazine camera made by J.T. Chapman Ltd, Manchester in around 1904. Fitted with a Wray R/R lens and T/P shutter, speeded 1/15th to 1/90th sec 1/4 plate negatives. With large detachable view finder, lever focusing. Flap front. These models have the focusing lever for left hand working, behind the large view finder. late model of the Miller patent magazine camera. The flap front and large view finder distinguish it from the 1890 model.

"British" Magazine Camera

A "British" (Miller's patent) quarter-plate magazine camera, made by Billcliff & Sons for J.T. Chapman, with a Wray lens.

Stereo Hawkeye Model 3 Camera

Eastman Kodak Stereo Hawkeye model 3 camera, with Bausch & Lomb rapid rectilinear lenses.

Stereo Brownie Camera

A No. 2 Stereo Brownie camera model A, by Eastman Kodak.

Lizars' "Challenge" Foldable Camera

A "Challenge" foldable bellows camera, with Beck symmetrical lens and a Goerz shutter.

Kodak Six-20 Junior Camera

A Model D Six-20 Kodak Junior folding camera, with Kodon shutter.

Ensign Folding Roll-Film Camera

Ensign folding roll-film camera, made by Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Coompany Limited.

Ernemann A-6 Camera

A-6 plate camera by Ernemann Werke.

Super Nettel folding 35mm camera

Super Nettel folding 35mm camera, made by Zeiss-Ikon AG, Dresden, Germany, c. 1935.

"Ticka" Detective Camera

"Ticka" detective camera made by Houghtons Ltd, with original cardboard box and instructions leaflet.

Ensign Carbine No 4a camera

Ensign Carbine No 4a camera, made by W. Butcher & Sons Ltd Ltd, London, c. 1925. From accession form: Metal leather roll film camera for 1/4 plate size. Dallmeyer Carfac lens f6.5 15cm focus. Lukos shutter (Ibsor type) Rise & cross front. Double extension rack focussing.

Graflex Plate Magazine

Graflex plate magazine with leather hood for changing plate, made by Folmer Graflex Corporation.

Camera Plate Holders

Eleven metal plate holders with dark slides. One wood plate holder and three adaptors for camera backs by various makers.

Stereoscopic Camera

Stereoscopic folding camera, sold by Joseph J. Pyne of Manchester. From accession form: Mahogany stereo camera (folding with brass lens flanges and swinging shutter. Marked on the top with J J Pyne Piccadilly and at base. J T Chapham Deansgate. Two fixed focus landscape lenses. The camera closed has a base board that fits under a shelf in the box, over this shelf is the space for the dark slides. This camera seems to have been made for sale by J J Pynes and taken over by J T Chapham when he started on his own at the Deansgate shop.

Camera lens

Camera lens made by W.I. Chadwick of Manchester in around 1880.

Wide-angle bronze mounted Globe camera lens made by C.C. Harrison and J. Schnitzer of New York

Wide-angle bronze mounted Globe camera lens made by C.C. Harrison and J. Schnitzer of New York in around 1862. From accession form: An early for of wide angle lens. With less covering power than the Sutton panoramic water lens if is better corrected for astigmatism and chromatic aberations, though it suffers from distortion on the edges of the field. An advanced form of this construction with special curves for the two lenses but with much smaller apertures can be seen in the Goerz Hypergon which covers 130 degrees as against the 90 degrees of this lens.

Camera Flap Shutter

Large wooden flap shutter.

Stereo Flap Shutter

Wood flap shutter for stereoscopic camera.

Camera Shutter

Wooden drop-type shutter. Simple shutter for short exposures.

Noton Camera Shutter

Instantaneous 'go and return' camera shutter by M. Noton.

Flip-Flap Shutter

Metal snapshot or flip-flap shutter.

Aperture Control Stops

Set of six Waterhouse stops in case by W. Hume. From accession form: A form of aperture control that gives very accurate sizes. The metal plates fitted into a gap in the lens.

Camera Mounting Plates

Four wood and brass lens mounting plates. As mounted this served as a lens panel to accommodate lenses of different diameters. It could be used as a variable aperture used before the lens. Useful piece of studio apparatus to permit the use of different lenses and also to control aperture.

Telephoto Lens

Aluminum telephoto lens with rack focusing by Dallmeyer.

Pneumatic Camera Shutter

Pneumatic drop shutter; wood drop shutter with pneumatic (bulb) operation. Shutter designed for silent action at slow speeds.

Symmetrical Doublet Lens

Symmetrical doublet lens by E. Suter. Brass lens symmetrical construction of two achromatic lenses using old type glasses. 12" focus f11. Late type R/R for architectural work.

Achromatic Landscape Lens

Achromatic landscape camera lens made by Lerebours & Secretan. Typical landscape lens of this period by maker of long standing reputation in France.

Dallmeyer Landscape Lens

Rapid landscape lens by J.H. Dallmeyer; 14" focus aperture f.16.

Rapid Symmetrical Lens

Brass-mounted rapid symmetrical lens by Ross & Co. Ltd; 7 1/2 " focus f8 with Waterhouse stops.

Landscape Camera Lens

Brass-mounted landscape lens made by Emil Busch; achromatic cell rear 5" focus f.16 Iris diaphragm.

Darlot Landscape Lens

Brass-mounted landscape-type camera lens by Darlot, with cap; focus 5" f.11 Iris diaphragm.

Brass Landscape Lens

Camera lens made by Lerebours and Secretan of Paris in around 1870. Brass landscape lens with disc aperture at front and lever exposure rack focus 6" approx. Apertures f.11 to 32. Interesting because of the position of the aperture control and the lever shutter.

Stereoscopic Lenses

Two stereoscopic lenses by Wray. Pair of matched stereoscopic lenses in case for use with Waterhouse stops. Focal length 5" largest aperture f.12. As stereoscopic lenses had to be accurately matched they were sold in cases like this. Normally they were paired landscape type lenses.

Engraved on lens barrel of first lens: "Wray, London, 5in Stereo : No. 6187". Stamped on disc stops of first lens: non-linear apertures, 5 settings, f11-f45. Engraved on lens barrel of second lens: "Wray London 5in stereo No. 6186". Painted on wheel stop of second lens: aperture numbers

Laverne Rectilinear Lens

Brass mounted rapid rectilinear lens made by Laverne & Co., for 1/4 plate size; these lenses were made specifically for J.T. Chapman Ltd.

Wray Wide-Angle Rectilinear Lens

Brass-mounted wide-angled rectilinear lens made by Wray, 6 1/2" focus. Aperture f.11; listed in the 1889 Wray catalogue as the fastest landscape-type lens.

Wray Landscape Lens

Brass-mounted landscape camera lens made by Wray; disc diaphragm f.16 to f.64, with leather cap.

Goerz Camera Shutter

Camera shutter made by Goerz c.1900. Aluminum framed shutter with pneumatic release. Fitted with Steinhill anastigmatic lens 4 1/2" focus f. 6.8. This type of shutter with iris diaphragm and pneumatic release became the standard mounting in the early 20th century. The shutters were made to take the ranges of lenses made by the various manufacturers and were normally folded to the folding cameras.

Stamped on front shutter mounting; "C.P. Goerz Berlin D.R.P." Stamped on front lens surround: "Beck-Steinheil convertible orthostigmat patent No. 12949 series II No. Focus 4 1/2""

Watkins Exposure Meter

Exposure meter by Watkins Meter Company; colour matching paper exposure in metal case.

Wynne's "Infallible" Exposure Meter

Wynne's "Infallible" exposure meter, pocket watch style actinometer with two tin boxes and two sets of three instruction leaflets and an envelope of paper refills wrapped in metallic paper .

Diaphot Exposure Meter

Diaphot visual or extinction meter in leather pouch by Zeiss Ikon Ltd. One of the early types of extinction meters that were in use before the photo-electric type was introduced.

Cine Camera Exposure Meter

Photo-electric exposure meter in leather case with instruction booklet by Blendux, 1933. Early type of photo-electric exposure meter.

Printed under foot screen of meter: "Blendux". Stamped/scratched on back of meter: "Germany 22736". Stamped inside of case: "J.H. Dallmeyer Ltd., 31 Mortimer Street, Oxford Street, W.1.". Printed on frame on inside of front flap of case: Table A, giving f1 values for camera speeds other than 16 frames per second.

Photographic Paper Tin

Calcium tin tube with lid and 16 sheets of photographic paper. This type of container was used to store sensitised materials in the early years.

Label with tin: "Storage tin for un-exposed sheets of callotype paper, 1840-55"

Dagurreotype Plates

Unexposed daguerreotype plates in a metal tank. Nickle plated container with lid and two unexposed plates. This type of container was used to store daguerreotype plates before use and also in the after process of development.

Argentometer

Argentometer in cardboard carton; glass tube with specific gravity scale; from the earliest days it was necessary for the strength of the silver nitrate solution used in photography to be accurately measured.

"Manchester" Dry Plate Negatives

A box of 12 'Manchester' dry plate negatives by J.T. Chapman Ltd, Manchester, 1888. J T Chapman was one of the first to manufacture the gelatine bromide dry plate. His formula was used by Hurter & Driffield for their investigations on the sensitometry as it maintained a very accurate standardisation. Chapman's formula was published in 1873 in the British Journal of Photography. The Chapman dry plate was initially called the 'Lancashire' but was soon changed to the 'Manchester'. In 1968, Chapman plates made 80 years before were used successfully.

Printed label on box top: product name, maker's details, note on developing. Handwritten label on string: "54"

Gelatine and Albumen Dry Plates

Lantern plates in grey paper wrapping by J. T. Chapman, 1887. The advent of the bromide dry plate made the making of lantern slides much easier and the products of the J T Chapman were widely used locally which lead to the foundation of what became noted as the 'Manchester School' of lantern slide makers.

Printed label attached to wrapper: "Gelatine and Albumen Dry Plates for printing Lantern Transparencies"

Kennett Pellicle Dry Plates

A one-dozen box of Kennett's Ordinary Pellicle Dry Plates, 5" x 4."

Kodak Brownie No. 2 Box Camera

Kodak Ltd No. 2 Brownie K112 camera, in red leather.

"The Tudor" Plate Folding Camera

Tudor 1/4 plate folding camera, by Houghtons Ltd.

Stamped below carrying handle: "The Tudor No 1 patent.". Stamped on front lens surround: "Symplanat Rapid Achromatic lens." Engraved on front lens mounting: "Bausch & Lomb Opt Co. pat appd." Label stamped inside front door: information concerning focusing lengths.

Black-and-white daguerreotype photograph of family group in garden

Black-and-white daguerreotype photograph of family group in garden, taken in around 1850.

Black-and-white daguerreotype photograph of still life with furnishings

Black-and-white daguerreotype photograph of still life with furnishings, possibly taken by Joseph Sidebotham in around 1850.

Printed label on back: "from Josiah T Chapman photographic chemist Albert Square, Manchester". Inscription written on back: "Daguerrotype"

Black-and-white daguerreotype photograph of the Egyptian Court of the Crystal Palace Exhibition at Sydenham in London

Black-and-white daguerreotype photograph of the Egyptian Court of the Crystal Palace Exhibition at Sydenham in London, taken in around 1858.

Collodion positive stereoscopic photograph of group of statues

Collodion positive stereoscopic photograph of group of statues, possibly taken by J. B. Dancer, at the Manchester Arts Treasures Exhibition, 1857.

Collodion positive stereoscopic photograph of a colonnade

Collodion positive stereoscopic photograph of a colonnade, possibly taken by J. B. Dancer at the Manchester Arts Treasures Exhibition in 1857.

Collodion positive photograph of the god Mercury

Collodion positive photograph of the god Mercury, possibly taken by J. B. Dancer at the Manchester Arts Treasures Exhibition in 1857.

Collodion positive photograph of an unknown statue group

Collodion positive photograph of an unknown statue group, possibly taken by J. B. Dancer at the Manchester Arts Treasures Exhibition in 1857.

Klimax Folding Plate Camera

A Klimax folding plate camera, made by W. Butcher & Sons, with an anastigmat lens made by Ross Limited, and a Compur shutter made by F. Deckel.

Stereoscopic Camera

Stereoscopic camera body, no lenses, c.1880. Possibly a prototype experimental camera for fixed focus landscape stereo camera.

Laverne Camera Lens

Camera lens made by A. Laverne and Co. of Paris. Brass mounted lens in brass lens flange with disc stops 5" focus f.16 early type of double lens.

Inscription engraved on lens: "A Laverne & Co Ancne Maison Gasc & Charconnet Paris 4 1/4 x 3 1/4"

Pneumatic Pre-Set Shutter

Pneumatic pre-set shutter by Eastman Kodak Co., mounted with a rectilinear brass-mounted lens by Bausch & Lomb.

Rapid Aplanat Camera Lens

Brass mounted lens and lens flange by Busch. Double achromatic lens. A transitional type during the period of the development of the fully achromatic/anastigmat lens. Very suitable for architectural photography.

Engraved on lens barrel: "Busch's Rapid Aplanat No. 2, Foc, 8ins, R.O.J.A. Vorm. Emil Busch, Rathenow.". Engraved on lens barrel: non-linear aperture scale, 7 settings.