American-Style daguerreotype camera

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Unidentified Maker
NATIONALITY: American
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1848
FILM TYPE: dag plate
IMAGE SIZE: 1/4 plate
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: daguerreotype
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: petzval portrait

NOTES:
  Daguerreotype camera for exposures up to 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. Camera body
  made of wood covered in rosewood veneer. Chamfered front corners.
  Plate or ground glass accessed through two doors on top of camera,
  doors opened in opposite directions with ivory knobs. Two possible
  plate/ground glass positions.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: 9999.00007