The Worlds Largest Camera, 1900 Photo
A 1968 news photo of the world’s largest camera in 1900. The mammoth camera was built in 1900 specially to shoot a brand new railway train. It took only a single picture of the new railway train from this special camera. The camera was designed by George R. Lawrence, a photographer and inventor. After Lawrence received an order from the Chicago & Alton Railroad USA to obtain a perfect contact picture of one of the brand new trains at that time.
The glass photography plate where the image was created was an enormous 8 x 4¼ feet in size. The inventor George Lawrence is seen standing on the top right side. This photo was created in 1968 from the original 8 x 4¼ feet photo that is with the Smithsonian Museum in the USA. It was included in the book American Album: Rare Photographs Collected by the Editors of American Heritage. Although the subject is not connected with India, regardless, we decided to incorporate it in this collection.
Read more This Was the World’s Largest Camera Back in 1900.
Did you know- built in a record time of two-and-a-half months by camera manufacturer J. A. Anderson, It weighed 635 kgs and took 15 men to operate it. It cost $5000 in 1899 or $154,000 (Rs in todays rate
From the collection- c1964 M. Suriyamoorthy Charcoal On Paper Nude (#3)., Pune Flower Show British India Era 1904 Old Photograph., Dalhousie Barrack Fort William Kolkata Vintage Postcard 1900., Vintage Book 1923 – Cochin British & Indian
