Lewis style daguerreotype camera (¼ plate)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Unidentified Maker
NATIONALITY: American
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1848
FILM TYPE: dag plate
IMAGE SIZE: ¼ plate
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: daguerreotype
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: petzval type portrait lens

NOTES:
  Rosewood veneered wooden bodied bellows camera mounted on a track
  frame. Square bellow allows for more extension for copy work, an
  improvement over the "American-Style" cameras. Cameras were made in
  numerous sizes, from 1/4 plate to double plate.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: 9999.00001

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. pp 6.//
Coe, Brian. --Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures.-- Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordbok, 1978. pp 29.//