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Seneca View Camera
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2005.006.02.02
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[ca. 1907] (Manufacturing)
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- Seneca Camera Manufacturing Company
- Place
- Germany
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Physical description
1 piece of photographic equipment : camera ; 28.5 x 25 x 42 cm (fully extended, including lens)
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Item is a wooden, tailboard folding field view camera, for use with 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 inch) dry plates. Field cameras are view cameras that produce studio quality images but are designed to fold down to a more compact, portable size. The camera includes a Universal Rapid Lens, series E and glass plate holder.
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Physical condition
Wood is in poor condition, and parts of the camera are broken. Will not roll out to expand due to a crack in the wooden track.
Immediate source of acquisition
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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General note
Item is from the Wilhelm E. Nassau/Wilfrid Laurier University donation, accession number 2011.018. Moved to the Heritage Camera Collection in 2013.
General note
Exhibited in "A City Transformed: Images of Istanbul Then and Now", Aga Khan Museum, Toronto February 6 - June 26, 2016.