Giroux daguerreotype camera

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Giroux, Alphonse
INVENTOR: Daguerre, L.J.M.
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris -- Rue du Coq St. Honroe 7
SEE ALSO: Bemis daguerreotype camera
INTRODUCTION DATE: August 19, 1839
PRODUCTION DATES: 1839-
FILM TYPE: dag plate
IMAGE SIZE: full plate
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $50.00
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 250?
SIGNIFICANT FEATURE: 1st Commercial Camera
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: daguerreotype
1 LINKED COMPONENT:
LENS: 15 inch f/15 Achromatic landscape lens UID: C5270.00001
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS:
  15 in. f/15 achromatic landscape (attrib. to Chevalier)
  shutter: Metal plate mounted on front of lens tube pivots to open

NOTES:
  Rigid bodied sliding box camera for single exposures, 6½ x 8½ in.
  on daguerreotype plates. Designed by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre,
  Paris, France. Manufactured by Alphonse Giroux et Cie., Paris, France.
  World's first commercially manufactured camera.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: G5281.00001
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 2130

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Auer, Michel. "Daguerre's Photographic Apparatus.", --Camera--, 1969 September. p. 54.//
Lothrop, Eaton S., Jr. --A Century of Cameras from the Collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.-- Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1973. pp 1.//
Coe, Brian. --Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures.-- Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordbok, 1978. pp 15 - 16.//
Eskind, Andrew. "Philip Brigandi: A True Believer.", --California Museum of Photography Bulletin--, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1983.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "[Académies des Sciences and Beaux-Arts]", France, Paris, Collège Mazarin (Institute), August 19, 1839.//