Scovill Mfg. Co.

American Scholar's Equipment

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c.1888-1894
Construction: no swing; non-reversing; no lensboard;
Materials: rigid body; no bed; no bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: #1=4.25x5x5; #2=3.25x4.25
Notes: very inexpensive camera; came with chemicals, pans, printing frame, paper, plates - everything needed to take and print pictures; as the name implies, it was a student camera; was a rigid tapered box instead of a bellows camera
References:
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, C.H. Codman & Co. (Boston, MA), September 1888, p. 17
Buchanan, Bromley & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, 1888
Buchanan, Bromley & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, 1889
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, Scovill & Adams Co. Catalog, January 1889, p. 13
Scovill and Adams Catalog, 1892, p. 2.
American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1893, p. 147
How to Make Photographs and Descriptive Price List, Scovill & Adams Co. Catalog, 1896, p. 21

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