Cameras used by photographers, interor of special photographic railcar2, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

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Taking A Picture:
The cameras used by the Detroit Publishing Company photographers were heavy and bulky. Instead of photographic film, the cameras used plates of glass. The photographer would have to wait until he got back to the studio before he could develop the glass plates and make prints.

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The Detroit Publishing Company photographers used cameras such as these pictured in their special photographic railcar on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, 1899. A Magazine “Cyclone 3” box camera is on the chair at the left hand side and a Premo “Senior” folding camera is on the table in the center.

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Image of Interior of Special DPC Railcar

Accession ID # P.DPC.04859

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