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Irving Camera

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Date Introduced: June, 1890 ; Years Manufactured: 1890-c.1900
Construction: bed moves through base to focus via rack and pinion (gears internal to base); single swing; reversing by removable back; three-piece lensboard
Materials: mahogany body; mahogany base; red leather bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 4x5; 5x7; 5x8; 6.5x8.5 (photos above); 8x10; 10x12; 11x14; 14x17; 17x20; 18x22
Notes: The Irving is an English compact-style, which has a lightweight plastic view screen instead of ground glass (advertised as a desirable feature in the catalogs)
References:
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, Scovill & Adams Co. Catalog, January 1892, p. 22
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1893, p. 84
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, Scovill & Adams Co. Catalog, 1896, p. 36
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1897, p. lxv
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1899, p. liv

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