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Empire State No. 1

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c. 1910
Construction: front and rear focus via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails); double swing; three-piece lensboard; reversing by removable back
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base; black leatherette bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered:
Notes: One of the half-dozen cameras known by the name Empire State, it probably bears the same relationship to the Empire State No. 2 as does the Century No. 1 to the Century No. 2 (all of which were made by EKC at this time) - namely the lack of  an auxiliary tripod base.  It would easily be mistaken for an Empire State Improved if it did not have a label that states otherwise.
References:
This camera is not listed in Eastman Professional Apparatus Catalogs of 1909, 1910, 1915, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1925, 1929, or 1932. 
Photo Materials, George Murphy, Inc. (New York, NY), 1910-1911, p. 44
 

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