Camera, square bellows tailboard with single lens stereo slide 1885-1905. Manufactured by E & T Underwood, Birmingham. Fitting for lens manufactured by Harrington & Co Ltd, Sydney. Lens Manufactured by Taylor, Taylor & Hobson, Leicester & London. City of Brisbane Collection, Museum of Brisbane. | This E & T Underwood tailboard camera, The Swift, was capable of producing both single image and stereograph glass plate negatives. The camera was found with a number of wooden cigar boxes containing Elliott’s negatives under a house in Red Hill in 1983 and purchased for the collection of the then Brisbane Civic Art Gallery and Museum.
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