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Expo Watch Camera
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2011.018.467.1 located Bay 83, shelf 1
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2005.006.06.02
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[between 1904 and 1939] (Manufacturing)
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- Expo Camera Company
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1 piece of photographic equipment: camera ; 6.5x5.4x2.2 cm
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Item is a small novelty film camera that is disguised as a railroad pocket watch, first produced into early 1900's and sold until 1939. The exposure is made through the winding stem and the winding knob serves as a lens cap, and required special film cartridges. The camera is relatively common, as it was marketed for so long and several variations exist in the "Expo" trademark style, the winding knob, and the viewfinder shape. Black, red, blue enameled versions produced about 1935 are rarer. Item has its original box and triangular viewfinder, but the lens cap is missing.
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Collected by Wilhelm E. Nassau and donated to Ryerson University Library and Archives Special Collections department by Wilfrid Laurier University in 2011
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Item is from the Wilhelm E. Nassau/Wilfrid Laurier University donation, accession number 2011.018. Moved to the Heritage Camera Collection in 2013.
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Exhibited in "Thru the Lens, Camera Obscura to Smartphone ", City of Waterloo Museum, Waterloo, April 12 - September 30, 2016.
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2005.006.06.02.jpg
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