Tom Thumb camera (Max Jurnick)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Max Jurnick
INVENTOR: Ford, James
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Jersey City
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Ford's Tom Thumb camera
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1889
PRODUCTION DATES: ca 1889-
PATENT DATE: May 28, 1889
FILM TYPE: dry plate
IMAGE SIZES:
  2½ x 2½ in.
  2½ diameter
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: detective

NOTES:
  Metal camera resembling the French Photosphere for single exposures
  on dry plates, either 2½ square, or with mask, 2½ diameter. Camera
  was intended to be used in its wooden box-like carry case, although
  this was not necessary.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: M4625.00001
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 1129

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: 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 52.//