Anthony's Photographic Bulletin
Vol. 7
No. 3 - March 1876
E. & H.T.
Anthony & Co., New York, NY
Dated - March 1876
Anthony's main periodical, having been started in 1869. The binding is relatively primative, being a sheaf of single sheets folded once, then held together by binding string penetrating the fold at only two spots. The result is also not trimmed, emphasizing the fact that the sheets have not precisely lined up - the owner may have had to slit pages before reading. A year's output is numbered sequentially, so that the pages here are 65-96.
This one is 1876, so is mostly wet plate related, although, surprisingly for 1876, there is a dry plate article (for amateurs making their own) on page 84. But there is also advertisement (page a19) for dry plates for sale which may be developed up to one month after exposure. The advertising is a who's who of the earliest photographic emporiums in the United States, in an era in which a Chicago or St. Louis location is referred to as the west.
As often found in wet-plate era literature, engravings of camera appearance are absent. A detailed description of the New Anthony Centennial Pocket Camera is given on page a22. The only thing it has in common with the much more numerous Scovill Centennial or 76 Pocket Camera is the word Centennial. Its has a Wright's patent tilting back, a metal bed and body made of plywood. Has anyone seen a camera matching that description?
