Sliding box daguerreotype camera designed by Daguerre and manufactured by Alphonse Giroux. This was purchased by W.H.F. Talbot who modified for use with paper negatives.
contributor
MCS
date
1839-00-00
type
Equipment
format
camera
Identification
2003-5001/1/49
Source
Royal Photographic Society collection.
language
English
relation
William Henry Fox Talbot This is probably one of the cameras referred to in http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/letters/transcriptFreetext.php?keystring=Giroux&keystring2=camera&keystring3=&year1=1839&year2=1844&pageNumber=0&pageTotal=10&referringPage=0 http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/letters/transcriptFreetext.php?keystring=Giroux&keystring2=camera&keystring3=&year1=1839&year2=1844&pageNumber=2&pageTotal=10&referringPage=0
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