Mercury II camera in leather case.
Universal Camera Corp.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1945
Materials
Leather, Thread, Metal
Place of origin
New York
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524608
Summary
A Universal Camera Corporation Mercury II (Model CX) camera in fitted brown leather camera case.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.
Makers and roles
Universal Camera Corp., manufacturer