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Marion & Co. 5x7 Tailboard Camera
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- Object
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2005.006.03.08
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1890's (Creation)
- Creator
- Marion & Co.
- Place
- London (UK)
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1889 (Manufacturing)
- Manufacturer
- J.H. Dallmeyer Ltd.
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Physical description
1 piece of photographic equipment : camera.
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Administrative history
Marion and Company Ltd was a camera maker in London (from an earlier stationary company in Paris) from the early 1840s until 1921, when the company was one of the seven British firms which merged to form Amalgamated Photographic Manufacturers (APM). Marion & Co. Ltd was only the last name of the company, which was founded as Augustin Marion, and changed its name several times. The company also changed its address in London several times before settling in Soho Square. This address led to the Soho name being applied to some of the company's most successful products, including the Soho Reflex range of cameras of the early 20th century. The name Soho was also preserved in the names of later companies arising from the break-up of APM, Soho Ltd and Kershaw-Soho
Custodial history
Camera was part of a private collection and was donated to the Ryerson University Library Special Collections in 2021 by John Tysall.
Scope and content
Item is a wood and brass folding field camera, for 4¾" × 6½" (120 × 165) or half-plate exposures on glass plates. Camera bellows are red leather and square cornered. The lens is a J.H. Dallmeyer rectilinear lens, dated 1889, with the serial number 49700.
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Collected by John Tysall and donated to Ryerson University Library Special Collections in 2022.
Arrangement
Added to the Heritage Camera Collection in 2022.
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Includes one wooden plate holder.