Catalogue of the Thornton-Pickard photographic specialities
A trade catalogue issued in 1895 by the Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Company of Altrincham near Manchester, offering its photographic apparatus to amateur and professional photographers. The pictures are fine line engravings of bellows view cameras, some with stands, shown in three-quarter views and in plain side elevations with dashed outlines marking the folded bellows. A designer could take from them the clean hatched shading and the accordion pleats of the bellows as a graphic motif for technical, mechanical subjects.
