Another Shorpy image. 1864 and the photog left his other camera lens laying in pic

Here. Looks like a 'radial drive' which would be correct. He obviously has his wide angle on the camera :cool: Glad I'm not the first guy to leave half my stuff laying around in the picture.

Probably a CC Harrison. Looks like a tripod on the far left made from a small tree.

Good catch Jim! Nice period picture of one of our rare American Radials. For petzvals, I recently pretty much only shoot them, and have sold off most of my others from other countries.

Bruce, there are 2 or 3 other American radial drive makers in this time period besides CC Harrison.

Already lost the hood!

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Originally Posted by Jason Greenberg Motamedi

Already lost the hood!

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Probably unscrewed the hood and carefully set it on the Harrison Globe in use ;)

Early eBay product shot. ("Hood included, but not pictured.")

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Originally Posted by Jim Galli

Probably unscrewed the hood and carefully set it on the Harrison Globe in use ;)

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Look to the right of the lens for the lens hood.
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Perhaps he intended to crop the image, and composed accordingly.

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Originally Posted by Jac@stafford.net

Look to the right of the lens for the lens hood.
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Originally Posted by BetterSense

Perhaps he intended to crop the image, and composed accordingly.

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Ahh, the story unfolds. He first looked at it with the petzval, and he said 'dammit' dark corners. Maybe if I take the hood off the $!@#$^ thing will cover it. Nope, gonna have to put the globe on.

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." King Solomon, Eccl 1:9

I think the hood was obviously blown off in the terrible industrial accident that also ripped the aluminum siding off that church building. Oh, the humanity....