Antique cameras and photographs a complete collection of old 18th and 19th century cameras and photographs with an oversized old wooden view a panoramic black leather covered wooden body camera with a rotating lens antique cameras and photographs.

THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY IS A TALE TOLD, NOT IN THE GREAT ART CREATED IN THE MEDIUM, BUT RATHER IN THE CAMERAS AND MATERIALS WHICH PROCEEDED THE EVENTUAL ACCEPTANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY AS FINE ART.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ARTWORK PRODUCED IN THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIUM IS AN EFFORT REALIZED IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. HOWEVER THE ADVENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS EARLIER, LEFT AN INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF EXCEPTIONAL IMAGERY. HISTORICAL CAMERAS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAVE HAD A FAR RICHER LEGACY. THE MEDIUMS' LONGEVITY IS BASED IN THE CRAFTSMANSHIP OF THE VINTAGE CAMERAS, MAGIC LANTERNS, AND STEREOSCOPIC PROJECTORS; WHICH CAN BE VIEWED AS AN ORIGINAL ART FORM, WITHIN THE MEDIUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY ITSELF. THIS CONCISE COLLECTION, OF VINTAGE CAMERAS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, IS AN EXPLICIT PRESENTATION OF FINE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL. THE EXAMPLES OF VICTORIAN PORTRAITURE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS VAST COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE, SETS THE STAGE TO COMPREHEND THE EVOLUTION WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO MODERN FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY. THE CHANCE TO SEE SUCH AN ARRAY OF UNUSUAL CAMERAS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS PRESENTED SO COHESIVELY IS DEFINITELY RARE. THIS COMPLETE COLLECTION COMBINES THE MEDIUMS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW PHOTOGRAPHY EVENTUALLY DEVELOPED INTO A
MODERN ART FORM.

MAGIC LANTERN ,CAMERAS, PROJECTORS, A ROTATING LENS WOODEN PANORAMIC CAMERA, "LANCASTER AND SON" BRASS LENS WOODEN ENGLISH CAMERA, ANTIQUE LARGE FORMAT WOODEN VIEW CAMERA, STEREO VIEWER ,STEREO CARDS, LENSES, WOODEN FILM DEVELOPING TANK, LEATHER CARRYING CASES, ANTIQUE CAMERAS THAT FEATURE RED BELLOWS WITH RANGE FINDERS,
A "RAINBOW HAWKEYE" CAMERA, TIN AND DAGUERREO
TYPES AND MUCH MUCH MORE.