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Title proper
English wetplate tailboard camera
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- Object
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2005.006.03.05
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1860-1870 (Manufacturing)
- Place
- England
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Physical description
1 piece of photographic equipment : camera.
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Custodial history
Camera was part of a private collection and was donated to the Ryerson University Library Special Collections in 2017 by John Tysall.
Scope and content
Item is a wood and brass folding tailboard wet plate field camera, likely of English manufacture, for 10.7 x 8.2 cm (3 1/4" x 4 1/4") or "quarter plate" exposures on glass plates. Camera is a landscape orientation with square bellows, hinged ground glass focusing screen, and no shutter. Bellows are extended by twin tracks. The slide out lens board has a mounted brass lens, of unidentified manufacture, with rotating aperture wheel and leather lens cap.
The camera is very similar in design to a 1/4 wet plate camera model designed by W. Morley, London, but does not have the identifying makers marks.
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Physical condition
Camera condition is good.
Immediate source of acquisition
Collected by John Tysall and donated to Ryerson University Library Special Collections in 2017.
Arrangement
Added to the Heritage Camera Collection in 2019.
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Open. Records are available for consultation without restriction.