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American Scholar's Equipment, ABC Photographic Outfit

  Scovill & Adams Catalog, 1892, p. 2

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c.1888-1894
Construction: no swing; non-reversing; no lensboard;
Materials: rigid body; no bed; no bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: #1=4¼x5½; #2=3¼x4¼
Notes: very inexpensive camera; came with chemicals, pans, printing frame, paper, plates - everything needed to take and print pictures; as the name implies, it was a student camera; was a rigid tapered box instead of a bellows camera.  In the 1888 Scovill-Codman catalog and in the 1891 Scovill-Horgan, Robey catalog, the ABC Outfit was advertised on a facing page to the American Scholar;  both had engravings showing the same camera - apparently the No. 1 ABC was the No. 2 Scholar (3¼x4¼) with slightly different accessories.

References:
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, Scovill Mfg. Co. (New York, NY), distributed by C.H. Codman & Co. (Boston, MA), September 1888, pp. 16-17
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, Scovill Mfg. Co. (New York, NY), distributed by Buchanan, Bromley & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, 1888
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), distributed by Buchanan, Bromley & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, 1889
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), January 1889, p. 13
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), distributed by Horgan, Robey & Co. (Boston, MA), June 1891, pp. 2-3
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), January 1892, p. 2
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1893, p. 147
The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1894, The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), 1893, p. 91
How to Make Photographs and a Descriptive Catalogue of Photographic Materials Illustrated, The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), 1896, p. 21

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