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No. 3 Maxim
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- Object
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2005.006.05.72
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[between 1903 and 1920] (Manufacturing)
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- W. Butcher & Sons Ltd.
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Physical description
1 piece of photographic equipment : camera
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Item is a leather covered wooden box camera from the days of the first "Brownie" cameras. It uses No. 2A Brownie or No. 2 1/2 Ensign spool film for 6.5x11cm exposures on rollfilm. The camera has a single achromtic lens with a time and instantaneous shutter, two diaphragms, and two ground glass viewfinders.
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Physical condition
Viewfinder at the top of the camera is cracked and very dusty.
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated to Ryerson University Library and Archives Special Collections department by Howard & Carole Tanenbaum.
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Open. Records are available for consultation without restriction.