Camera used by William Henry Fox Talbot, 1830s
Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot established the negative to postive process in photography. This small camera is one of a number that he used to expose sensitized paper to create negatives. The negatives were put in plate holders with sensitized salted paper and placed in the sun.
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