Mouse Trap camera (replica)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Kodak Ltd.
NATIONALITY: English
PLACE MANUFACTURED: England, Wiltshire
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Talbot Mouse Trap camera (replica)
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1835
FILM TYPE: sensitized paper
IMAGE SIZE: 1 3/4 x 2 1/8 in.
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: box
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: meniscus (microscope or telescope eyepiece objectives)

NOTES:
  The carpenter on Fox Talbot's estate, Leacock Abbey in Wiltshire,
  England, made a number of unique cameras for him that he used in his
  early photographic experiments. The smallest of these cameras were
  dubbed 'mousetraps' by his wife because they resembled the mousetraps
  used in England at the time. It was with one of these cameras that
  the oldest surviving negative was made, a view of a latticed window at
  Talbot's home. The 'mousetrap' cameras at George Eastman House are
  replicas of the Talbot cameras, made by Kodak Ltd.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: K763.00002
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 926

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Coe, Brian. --Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures.-- Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordbok, 1978. pp 15.//