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Walker's Pocket Camera

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: William H. Walker & Co.
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: USA, NY, Rochester
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca. 1881
FILM TYPE: dry plate
IMAGE SIZE: 2-3/4 x 3(¼)
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: box
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: achromatic lens

NOTES:
  "Wooden box camera for 2 3/4x3¼" dry plates. Achromatic lens,
  guillotine shutter." McKeown, 1997.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: W6235.00001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: McKeown, Jim & McKeown, Joan. --Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras: 1997/1998.-- Grantsburg, WI: Centennial Photo, 1996. p 434.//

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Walkers Pocket Camera

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