E. & H.T. Anthony

Novel View Camera, Variation 2

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c. 1884-1897
Construction: rear focus via push-pull; 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; 5x8; 6.5x8.5; 8x10; in 1888, add 10x12; 11x14; 14x17; 17x20; 18x22
Notes:  This model introduced the metal front standards, which may be either brass finish, or nickel, as above.  The ground glass frame has a graceful curving profile, and the glass itself is held in place by delicate wooden strips.  The bed is made rigid by a simple thumbscrew above, but later the Anthony's patent clips would be used.  Later, the moldings were dropped in favor of the less time-consuming metal clips of Variation 3.  Oddly, the front standard on the above camera is nickeled, whereas the remainder of the hardware is un-nickeled brass.  The bottom photo shows the camera in the midst of rotating between horizontal format to vertical formal.
References:
Haworth Catalog, 1884, p. 26
Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY, May 1885, pp. 11-13
Amateur Photographic Equipments & Materials, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY,  September 1885, pp. 10-12
J.W. Queen & Co. Catalog, 1886, pp. 52-53
W.D. Gatchel Catalog, 1888, p. 23-24;
The International Annual Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, Vol. III, 1890-1891, p. 101
Photographic Material, Catalogue O & P, James W. Queen & Co. (Philadelphia, PA), 1891, p. 40-41
 

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