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Model Stereo Camera Box

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c.1878-1882
Construction: rear focus via push-pull with fine focusing screw; single or no swing; three-piece lensboard
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base; black fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 4x7; 4x8; 5x8
Notes: The Photographic Times reference indicates that this is the same as the 76 camera (albeit without an engraving illustrating it), but the engraving in McCollin (above) hardly looks like the 76, rather being clearly an upright camera not particularly suited to stereo use, and is, in fact,  the same engraving used in the same catalog for the Am. Opt. View Camera Boxes.  So much for truth in advertising.  The actual Model Stereo is probably what is shown under "76" Camera, Model Stereo Version.
References:
Photographic Times 8, 1878, p. 100
Thos. H. McCollin Catalog, 1882, p. 10
 

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