Grand Photographe camera

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Charles Chevalier
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Chevalier folding Daguerréotype camera
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1840
FILM TYPE: dag plate
IMAGE SIZE: whole plate
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: daguerreotype
1 LINKED COMPONENT:
LENS: Photographe à verres combinés UID: C5272.00004
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: 29 cm f/5.6 "Photographe à Verres Combines"
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Finished wood; removable lensboard; interchangeable ground-glass
  screen and plate holder, both removable; slides hinged and fold
  inward to collapse; loaded through opening at rear of camera top;
  Knob on top tightens to hold still inner box which slides for
  focusing." (Lothrop, 1973).

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: C5272.00001
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 962

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
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. p 2.//
Coe, Brian. --Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures.-- Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordbok, 1978. p 22.//
Condax, Philip L. "From the Collections.", --Image--, Vol. 37, no. 3-4, 1994 Fall/Winter. pp. 54-57.//