Number One Goerz-Anschutz folding camera
C. P. Goerz
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1896 - 1905
Materials
Wood, Glass, Leather
Measurements
extended
Place of origin
Berlin
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524774.1
Summary
A Goerz-Anschutz folding plate camera. The wooden body is partly covered in black leather, with a removeable leather lens cap, folding leather flaps covering the plate holder, and a focal plane shutter. The lens is supported on metal struts. There is a cross hairs viewfinder. The bellows are black leather. Above the lens is stamped, The London Stereoscopic Co Limited, 106 and 108 Regent Street, London W. CP Goerz Berlin is stamped below the lens. Stamped on to the plateholder is 37 and 14533. There is a leather carrying strap.
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
C. P. Goerz , manufacturer