E. & H.T. Anthony

Novelette View Camera, Variation 1

Anthony Catalog January 1895, p. 14

5x8

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c.1886-1897
Construction: rear focus via push-pull but with fine-focusing screw; single or double swing; reversing by rotating bellows and back; plywood lensboard
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base; black fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 4x5; 4¼x6½; 5x7 (added "recently" per Feb. 1888 Anthony's Photographic Bulletin), 5x8 (shown); 6½x8½; 8x10; in 1891, add 10x12; 11x14
Notes: There are two variations of Novelette: 1) this variation (Novelette Variation 1) , and 2) Novelette Variation 2, which has a solid plywood base , described by Christie's auction house as a "Bicycle Novelette", and referred to by William Marder in his Anthony book as "early". Both types have folding bed.   The tripod screw here is neatly stored by screwing it into the bottom of the front standard.   This example also has the patented bed hooks, one of the more sturdy and successful of many inventions to quickly make a folding bed rigid.

References:
Illustrated Catalogue of Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), August 1887, pp. 14-15
Illustrated Catalogue of Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), January 1888, pp. 14-15
Illustrated Catalogue of Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), January 1889, pp. 14-15
The International Annual Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, Vol. III, 1890-1891, W. J. Harrison and A. H. Elliot, eds., E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), ads p. 101
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), 1891, pp. 9-11
How to Make Photographs.  A Manual for Amateurs, C. T. Roche and H.T. Anthony, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), 1892, p. 29
The International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin Vol. VI 1894, edited by A.H. Elliott and F.P. Smith, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), 1893, p. 71 (list of view and other cameras)
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), September, 1894, p. 13-15
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), January 1895, p. 13-15
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), August, 1896, p. 13-15
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Materials, Thos. H. McCollin & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) undated, c. 1897, p. 38-39
not in 1898 or later catalogs

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