E. & H.T. Anthony
Success Compact View, Variation 2
Thos. H. McCollin, catalog,
Jan 1, 1876, p. 30-32
8x10
Date Introduced: - ; Years
Manufactured: c.1873-1882
Construction: rear focus
via push-pull with fine-focusing screw; single swing
Materials: mahogany body, cherry base, red leather bellows,
brass and nickeled brass hardware
Sizes Offered: P=4¼x6½; Q=6½x8½; R=8x10; S=10x12;
T=11x14; U=14x17; V=17x20
Notes: The photographed camera
should have a fine focus screw
(although it is missing), brass guides on bed sides; X=short focus, non-folding bed;
Y=long focus folding bed (see View Camera Boxes P-W). This
model was primarily a wet-plate camera, and was discontinued in favor of lighter weight
cameras a short time after dry plates became common. The
camera was advertised as
weighing "only 22 pounds". The hinged-lid compartment under the lens would
have held small items, such as lens caps or Waterhouse stops,
and is similar to the one on a Semmendinger Excelsior
design of the same period. The front standard
still retains the twin thumbscrews present on the
Kinear-type Success. The handle on top of
the 8x10 is a period alteration for convenience - that the top of the camera has not
broken due to the handle being there is a testament to very solid wood of the
period. The nickeled swing hardware took a number of profiles over the years,
slender (like these) or thicker, with curved edges (like the engraving).
References:
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin Vol. 4, E. & H. T. Anthony & Co.
(New York, NY), April 1873, p. 127
Illustrated Catalogue Issued Annually by Thos. H.
McCollin,, Thos. H. McCollin (Philadelphia, PA),
Jan 1, 1876, p. 30-32
Photographic Apparatus, E. & H.T. Anthony
& Co. (New York, NY), 1877, p. 15-16
Illustrated Catalogue of General Photographic Supplies,
Thos. H. McCollin (Philadelphia, PA), 1882, pp.
21-22
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