Dry plate making for amateurs ..
A trade catalogue of dry plate photographic equipment published by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of New York in 1886, aimed at amateur photographers. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of cameras, with a front-focus revolving-back model, a tripod-mounted box camera with a lens, and a bellows camera with a ground-glass back. A designer could draw on their crisp hatched linework and the rigid, mechanical forms of Victorian camera design.
