E. & H.T. Anthony
Novelette, Patent Duplex Camera
Anthony Catalog January 1895, p. 23
8x10, bellows detached from front standard for switching rear
ends
Date Introduced: 1885 ; Years
Manufactured: 1885-1898
Construction: rear focus
via push-pull but with fine-focusing screw; single swing; reversing by
rotating bellows and back; plywood lensboard
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base; black fabric bellows;
brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 5x8 and 8x10 backs for the same track; in 1891
also 8x10 and 11x14 backs for the same track
Notes: The bellows not only rotate, like all Anthony
Novel
and Novelette cameras, but this camera's bellows detach, allowing two different sizes of
rear standards to be slid onto the tracks. The above camera is probably the 5x8/8x10
version, as is the camera below, which has both backs.
References:
Illustrated Catalogue of Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials, E.
& H.T. Anthony & Co.
(New York, NY), August 1887, p. 18
Illustrated Catalogue of Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials, E.
& H.T. Anthony & Co.
(New York, NY), January 1888, p. 18
Illustrated Catalogue of Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials,
E.
& H.T. Anthony & Co.
(New York, NY), January 1889, pp.
18
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and
Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), 1891, p. 19
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and
Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY),
September, 1894,
p. 23
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and
Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), January 1895, p. 23
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and
Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), August, 1896,
p. 23
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Materials, Thos. H. McCollin & Co. (Philadelphia, PA)
undated, c. 1897, p. 41-42
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and
Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), February, 1898, p. 16
not in 1899 or 1900 catalogs
5x8 back installed, 8x10 off
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