16x20 or 20x24?

[Jonathan Barlow]

Interesting old image. Does anyone recognize the camera? Looks to be in the 16x20 to 20x24 range.


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[Timothy Blomquist]

Looks like a 20x24. If I remember, that is a photo of William Henry Jackson.

[karl french]

Or 18x22" perhaps.

[Robert Opheim]

It looks like a Mammoth Plate camera - I saw one in a show of Darius Kinnsey's photography in Washington State at the Frye Art Museum a number of years ago.

[scheinfluger_77]

Looks like a 20x24. If I remember, that is a photo of William Henry Jackson.

WH Jackson was going to be my guess too, in which case it's probably 20x24. He's kind of a hero to me, lugging around that size wet plate in the Colorado high country.

[Daniel Stone]

With NO CAMERA CASE either ;)

Ballsy!

[Louis Pacilla]

Or 18x22" perhaps.


Karl is correct it was 18x22. He used a E.&HT Anthony Klauber Camera which was only manufactured in 14x17 & 18 x22. It could be configured as a Portrait camera was well as a field camera w/ an additional bellows & mid standard. Here's a link to some info & photos of the camera.http://piercevaubel.com/cam/anthony/klauber.htm


This is a Klauber in the 14x17 size.