E. & H.T. Anthony

Novelette View Camera, Variation 1

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c.1886-1897
Construction: rear focus via push-pull but with fine-focusing screw; single or double swing; reversing by rotating bellows and back; plywood lensboard
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base; black fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 4x5; 4.25x6.5; 5x7 (added "recently" per Feb. 1888 Anthony's Photographic Bulletin), 5x8 (shown); 6.5x8.5; 8x10; in 1891, add 10x12; 11x14
Notes: two variations: 1) solid plywood base (see Novelette, Variation 2), described by Christie's auction house as a "Bicycle Novelette"; 2) open cherry bed. Both types have folding bed.   Tripod screw is neatly stored by screwing it into the bottom of the front standard.   The above example has the patented bed hooks, one of the more sturdy and successful of many inventions to quickly make a folding bed rigid.
References:
Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY, August 1887, pp. 14-15
Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY, January 1888, pp. 14-15
The International Annual Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, Vol. III, 1890-1891, p. 101
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY, 1891, pp. 9-11
How to Make Photographs.  A Manual for Amateurs, C.T. Roche and H.T. Anthony, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY, 1892, p. 29
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY, September, 1894, p. 13-15
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY, January 1895, p. 13-15
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY, August, 1896, p. 13-15
Thos. H. McCollin & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, c. 1897, p. 38-39
not in 1898, 1899, 1900 or 1901 catalogs

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