View Cameras
"For my part, I may say that before I commenced photography I did not see half the beauties in nature that I do now, and the glory and power of a precious landscape has often passed before me and left but a feeble impression on my untutored mind; but it will never be so again." - Samuel Bourne, 1864
Between 1863 and 1866, Samuel Bourne made three trips to the Himalayas. He was encumbered with an unbelievable cargo of photographic equipment and plates, not to mention the other necesseties of life appropriate to daily existance of an Englishman abroad; 'sporting requisites', books, odd pieces of furniture and an ample supply of Hennessy's brandy.
American Cameras:
Anthony's Novelette Camera, c1888 Empire State Camera, c1894 Rochester Optical Empire State Camera
Anthony's Novelette Camera
Anthony's Phantom Camera, c1888 Rochester Optical Commodore, c1885
Anthony's Phantom Camera Rochester Optical Commodore
Anthony's Victor Camera, c1889 - 91 Rochester New Model View, c1895
Anthony's Victor Camera Rochester Optical New Model View
1st Version Blair Hawk-Eye Detective, c1891 Blair Hawkeye Detective
Okay, not technically a view camera but a good place to put on the website.		 Peerless Camera, c1887
Rochester Optical Peerless Camera
Blair Lucidograph, 1885 - 90 Blair Lucidograph ROC Unversal Camera, c1892
Rochester Optical Universal Camera
Flammang's Rear Focus Pattern, c1885 Acme View Box, c1880s
Flammang's Patent Revolving Back Camera (rear focusing pattern)
Scovill Acme View Box
Flammang's Front Focus Pattern, 1880s Flammang's (front focusing pattern) Compact View, c1889
Scovill Compact View
Gennert Penny Picture Camera, c1880s Scovill Waterbury View Camera, c1888
Gennert Penny Picture Camera Scovill Waterbury View
No.3 and No.2 Eclipse Cameras American Optical St. Louis View Camera, c1887
Horsman Eclipse Cameras St. Louis Reversible Back Camera
Nodark Camera, c1899 - 1903 Nodark
Okay, not technically a view camera but a good place to put on the website.		 American Optical Star View Camera, c1890 - 1898
Star View Camera
Putnam Marvel, late 1880s Wing Ajax Camera, c1900
Putnam Marvel
Putnam Research
Wing Ajax Camera
European Cameras:
Chambre De Voyage, late 1890s Instantograph 1/4 Plate Camera, 1893
Lancaster: The 1893 Instantograph Patent
Chambre De Voyage
Underwood Instanto, c1896 Morley 1/4-plate Wetplate View, 1860s
The "Instanto" Underwood's Patent Morley Wetplate View Camera
Fallowfield's Facile Camera, c1890 Fallowfield's "Facile" Camera Not technically a view camera but a good place on the website. Ottewill's Improved Kinnear Camera, 1860s
Ottewill's Improved Kinnear Camera
Le Merveilleux 1/4 Plate Camera, c1888 Shew Xit Cameras, c.1898
Lancaster: The 1888 Patent "Le Merveilleux"
Shew Xit Cameras
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