E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

Clifton View Camera

 

 

Anthony Catalog, June 1901, p. 26

 

 

 

 

 

5 x 8"

Camera only from the front, using no movements
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Camera only from the front, using all the movements of the front standard: rise up, shift to the right, swivel clockwise, and tilt down.
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Camera only from the rear, using no movements.
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Camera only from the rear, using all the movements of the rear standard: swivel clockwise and tilt down.
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Label, celluloid, upper part of ground glass frame: "E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. - New York and Chicago. - The Whitehead & Hoag Co., Newark, N.J.".  Whitehead & Hoag apparently printed the label.
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Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c.1898 - c.1906
Construction: front focus via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails) and rear focus via push-pull; double swing; reverse by removable back; three-piece lens board
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base track; black fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 5x7; 5x8; 6½x8½; 8x10; 11x14; 14x17
Notes:

    The front standard focuses by rack and pinion; the rear standard slides in the middle groove, tightened by a lever - two different types of focus similar to the Gennert Brighton, the American Optical Manifold, and the Smith Magic View/Sunart Photo (probably Seneca-made) Vici.

     There is a Long Focus Clifton model, which, while having the two types of focus and an identical front standard to this model, has rear standard hardware more reminiscent of a Century camera than an Anthony.


References:
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), November, 1898, p. 18
Descriptive Catalogue and Price List of Photographic Apparatus (Professional Catalog), E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, NY, July 1899, p. 42
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), August, 1899, p. 25
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), April, 1900 Supplement to the August, 1899, p. s2
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments and Materials for Amateurs, The Anthony & Scovill Co. (New York, NY), June, 1901, p. 26
The International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, Volume XII for 1900, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), copyright 1900, ads, p.51
The International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, Volume XIII for 1901, edited by W. I. Scandlin, E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), copyright 1900, ads p. 6
The International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, Volume XIV for 1902, edited by W. I. Scandlin, E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY), copyright 1901, ads p. 76
Descriptive Catalogue and Price List of Photographic Apparatus, Anthony & Scovill Co. (New York, NY)
, 1903
Photographic Goods 1842-1904, The Anthony and Scovill Co., (New York, NY), 1904, Catalog C, p.11

 

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