Provisional catalogue of the "N. and G." hand cameras and shutters
A provisional trade catalogue issued in London in 1890 by the photographic firm Newman and Guardia, presenting their "N. and G." hand cameras and shutters to photographers and dealers. The pictures are plain black-and-white wood-engraved views of boxed hand cameras shown closed, opened, and with their internal fittings exposed, labelled with figure captions. A designer might take from them the compact box-camera silhouette, the dense stippled leather texture on the casings, and the mechanical detail of shutters and lens mounts drawn in clean engraved line.
