Scovill Mfg. Co.
St. Louis Camera,
Variation 1
Front Focus Cone Camera, Variation 1
Front Focus
Reversible Back Camera, Variation 1
Scovill Dry Plate Making for Amateurs, 1886, p. 13
8 x 10
Date Introduced: - ; Years
Manufactured: c.1885-1889
Construction: front focus via
rack and pinion (single gear track on middle base rail);
no, single or double swing; reversing by
removable back;
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base; black fabric bellows;
brass hardware
Sizes Offered: #110: 4x5; #111: 4¼x5½; #112: 4¼x6½;
#113: 5x7; #114: 5x8; #115: 6½x8½; #117: 8x10; #118: 11x14
Notes: A similar model was advertised by both American
Optical and Scovill (even though Scovill owned American Optical). American Optical
cameras have smoother finishes in both wood and brass than Scovill cameras, and seem to
always have a silver American
Optical label. The above camera is an American Optical, but
serves to illustrate the form. Variation 1 has a bottom pivot for its swing, whereas
Variation 2 has a center pivot swing.
References:
Photographic Times 15, 1885, p. 583
Dry Plate Making for Amateurs, Scovill Mfg. Co. (New
York, NY), 1886, p. 13
Catalog P, Photographic Material, J. W. Queen & Co. (Philadelphia, PA), 1886, p. 61
(As St. Louis)
Scovill's Photographic Series
No. 26, The Photographic Instructor,
Prof. Charles Ehrmann, Scovill Mfg. Co., 1888,
ads p.
xv
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, C.H. Codman & Co.
(Boston, MA), April 1887, p. 35
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
Scovill Mfg. Co. (New York, NY), distributed by
C.H. Codman & Co. (Boston, MA), September 1888, p.
27
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), January 1889, p. 26
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List,
The Scovill & Adams Co. (New York, NY), distributed by Buchanan, Bromley & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, 1889
Photographic Material,
Catalogue O & P, James W. Queen & Co. (Philadelphia, PA),
1891, p. 49
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