Enhancing the Illusion

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K763.00005

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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
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: box
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: meniscus (microscope or telescope eyepiece)

NOTES:
  The Talbot mouse trap cameras at George Eastman House are replicas
  made by Kodak Ltd.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: K763.00005
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 929

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

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Mouse Trap camera (replica)

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