Camera Collection

T T Photographer
9th June 1951: Don Price taking photos, with a Speed Graphic camera, of the TT race by standing on a Matchless 500 Twin motorcycle. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Star Loco; A scene from the Ealing Comedy, Titfield Thunderbolt
6th September 1952: A scene from the Ealing comedy

Young smiling man wearing underwear standing in front of nostalgic wallpaper

Young man in a suit and without shirt lying on a couch

Young man in a suit and without shirt kneeling on a couch

Portrait of a young man

Young man in white shirt and blue jeans jumping

Man with a naked torso wearing long underwear in a horse barn sitting on bales of hay

Girl, teenager, serious

Students Of Coyne Electrical School
(Original Caption) Chicago, IL: Students of Chicago's Coyne Electrical School manning early television camera. Photograph, 1940's

Janssen's Photographic Revolver
The photographic revolver, created by French astronomer Pierre-Jules-Cesar Janssen. The revolver rotated clockwise, taking 48 exposures in 72 seconds on a daguerreotype disc

Photographer In Yosemite Valley
(Original Caption) Precipitous photographer in Yosemite Valley, California. Undated photograph. BPA2# 5323

Camerama, Camera; Looking Thru Lens
(Original Caption) Alvin Wyckoff, Cecil B. DeMille's cameraman, testing the lighting of a scene

DeMarco Wins Lightweight Crown
Paddy DeMarco(left), known to ring enthusiasts as the "Billy Goat, " gives a demonstration of how he earned his nickname

Boy Aiming Camera At His Teddy Bear
(Original Caption) Portrait of a young boy photographing his teddy bear. Staged photograph, circa 1890

Elephants Photograph Each Other
(Original Caption) Elephants photograph each other at the circus. Undated

Actors Directed in Overhead Camera Angle
(Original Caption) 1936: Director Fritz Lang directs actors Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane and William Gargan in a particular camera angle in Walter Wanger's production

Scene From "Amos N Andy" Tv Show
(Original Caption) Scene from the "Amos N Andy" CBS TV show that ran from 1951 to 1953

Clifton Webb Taking Picture in Sitting Pretty
(Original Caption) Clifton Webb about to take a picture with old time camera and flash powder. Movie still from "Sitting Pretty."

Set Of An Early Tv Show
(Original Caption) Interior of an early television studio, showing rehearsal on the set of a show. Undated photograph

Women Pose On Bench For Boy W/Camera
(Original Caption) Young women on park bench pose humorously for boy photographer with old box camera. Photo, ca. 1890

Emil Wenig With His Hand Made Camera
(Original Caption) Emil Wenig- fifty years ago invented the photographic dry plates- which meant the beginning of the amateur photographer. Here Mr

Henry Fonda Walking W/Francis Brokaw
(Original Caption) Henry Fonda with his first wife, Francis Brokaw. Undated photograph

Milton Berle Being Taped By Tv-Cameraman
(Original Caption) A view from behind the television camera of comedian Milton Berle (1908-?) in action

George Eastman W/Thomas Edison
(Original Caption) George Eastman (1854-1932), American inventor and industrialist, standing outside with Thomas Alva Edison, near a camera. Undated photograph

Ida Lupino Directing Film
(Original Caption) Ida Lupino, who divides her time between starring in pictures and directing, is now a veteran behind the camera

Acme Photographer Harry Leder W/ Camera
(Original Caption

Acme Photographer Harry Leder W/ Camera
(Original Caption

3/4 Length of Ernie Kovacs With Cigar
(Original Caption) NBC-Television star Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962) smoking a cigar and resting his arm on a television camera. Kovacs is wearing a suit and is shown in a 3/4 length portrait

Glark Gable & Myrna Loy On A Movie Set
(Original Caption) Picture shows actor, Clark Gable, and actress, Myrna Loy, receiving direction from their director on a movie set. Undated photo circa 1930s

Woman Smiles as She Holds Camera
(Original Caption) Virginia Cruzon smiles while holding a camera. Ca. 1940-1960

Ida Lupino Looking Through Movie Camera
(Original Caption) Hollywood, CA: Ida Lupino directs one of the scenes from her latest picture, "Mother of a Champion." She is shown peering through the movie camera. Undated photograph

Pola Negri Has Her Photograph Taken
(Original Caption) Actress Pola Negri has her photo taken in a scene from the movie "The Charmer". Undated movie still

Photographer on Roof of Building
(Original Caption) Pacific and Atlantic photographer risking his neck for snapping photos while standing on edge of the roof of one of New York's tallest buildings in Manhattan by City Hall

Advertising Poster Movies and Moving Camera
(Original Caption) 1902-Illustrated, advertising poster for Northwestern Entertainment Company

Man Drives Auto While Woman Snaps Photo
(Original Caption) 1905: An early automobilist with a lady companion who snaps a photograph

Thomas Edison with the First Film Projector
(Original Caption) Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) experimenting with the first motion picture machine. B/W photo, 1905

Johnson Weighing In
(Original Caption) 4/9/1915- Havana, Cuba - Jack Johnson and Jess Willard Fight. Johnson just before weighing in. Photograph shows ring with scale in it and crowd

Movie Camera On A Tripod
(Original Caption) Circa 1920- Photograph of a movie camera on a tripod

Bobby Jones Swinging Golf Club
(Original Caption

Photographer Aiming Military Camera
(Original Caption) A naval aviation photographer using a K-2 aerial camera used for oblique work. The camera is mounted on a Navy F-5-L flying boat

George Eastman Taking Pictures
George Eastman taking pictures with a Kodak camera

Movie Scene from The Big Parade
(Original Caption) 1925- Director King Vidor (1894-1982) shots a scene from, "The Big Parade", with the antiquated camera sheilded from the sun by an umbrella

Altrack And Pinchot At World Series
(Original Caption) Original Caption Reads:10/8/1925-Nick Altrack making movie of Gov. Pinchot at World Series

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in A Woman of Affairs
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, director Clarence Brown, and cinematographer William H. Daniels during the filming of a scene from A Woman of Affairs (1928)

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin in Laboratory
(Original Caption) 12/3/1926-Photo shows Mr. V. K. Zworykin in his laboratory

Louise Homer Using Camera
(Original Caption) 3/7/1928-Louise Homer, Metropolitan Opera House singer, sailing on the Empress France. Photograph, March 7, 1928

Mrs. Hoover Aiming Camera
(Original Caption) Mrs. Hoover Proves a Good Photographer. While on the South American Good Will Trip, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the President-elect, took many pictures with her camera

Aborigine Photographing Fellow Tribesman
An Australian Aborigine man photographs a fellow member of his tribe on the Palm Islands off Northern Queensland

Eadward Muybridge's Camera Shed
(Original Caption) 5/20/1929- Stanford Muybridge Memorial Exhibit- Photo shows long shed which contained 24 cameras taking first motion picture by Eadward J

Photographer Jack Reilly on Side of Bank of Manhattan Building
(Original Caption) 11/13/1929-New York, NY: Jack Reilly, intrepid photographer, precariously perched from the 72 story of the world's tallest building, the 74 story Bank of Manhattan structure

Men Walk Past Pres. Roosevelt
(Original Caption) Members of a civilian Conservation Corps file past Pres. F.D. Roosevelt to receive a cheery nod and a word

P. Farnsworth Demonstrates Transmitter
(Original Caption) 1/11/1930-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS-Philo Farnsworth (23) demonstrating transmitter of television set to A.B. Mann, consulting engineer

Margaret Bourke-White
(Original Caption) 12/6/1931-NY: Margaret Bourke-White

Howard Hawks And Staff; Movie Camera
(Original Caption) 1932-Howard Hawks (on stool), director of Howard Hughes great gangster film, "Scarface" and his staff of assistants and technicians. Photograph, 1932

Director and Crew of One Hour with You
(Original Caption) 1932- Behind the cameras on production of, "One Hour With You", we see on the camera's left Ernst Lubitsch, Supervisor; on the camera's right, George Cukor

Babe Ruth Taking Picture of Lou Gehrig
(Original Caption) 4/12/1932 - Philadelphia

Woman Seated On Boat Deck
(Original Caption) 10/18/1932-New York, NY: Miss Lee Miller of Poughkeepsie, NY

San Blas Native Americans With Camera
(Original Caption) 12/6/1932-Panama- Lt Earl Roseman showing the mechanism of a camera to native women eho gathered a round with their babies as color motion pictures were made of the San Blas Indians

King Vidor Directs The Stranger's Return
(Original Caption) 1933- King Vidor directing "The Stranger's Return" by Metro-Goldwym Mayer

Congressmen Drinking Beer to Support Prohibition Repeal
Anti-prohibition members of Congress toast the the House decision to legalize 3.2 percent alcohol sales. Among those celebrating are, left to right: New York Representative William I. Sirovich, G.G

William Walling, Jr. With Camera
William Walling, Jr. also known as Richard Walling, stands behind a "still" camera. Walling also worked as an actor

Actors Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter
(Original Caption) 6/25/1933- Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter co-starred in, "Paddy, the Next Best Thing, " caught during an idle moment in production

Spanky McFarland
07/15/1934- Cute little Spanky MacFarland, premier Our Gang kid, with an old fashioned camera and cable release

Police Photographer Taking Photo of Bruno Hauptmann
(Original Caption) Bruno R. Hauptmann, 35-year-old German carpenter, being "mugged" at New York police headquarters, September 21st

Clark Gable and Constance Bennett
(Original Caption) 1935- Clark Gable wispers sweet nothings to Constance Bennett in this scene from, "After Office Hours", their new Metro=Goldwin-Mayer picture

Photographer Margaret Bourke-White with Actress Ann Harding
(Original Caption) Hollywood, CA: Margaret Bourke-White, Celebrated woman photographer, brings her camera on the set of "The Flame Within, " to photograph Ann Harding

Charlie Chaplin Behind Movie Camera
Actor Charlie Chaplin looks though a movie camera on April 22, 1935. He is directing, as well as acting in, a comedy tentatively titled Production No. 5

Cat photographing with camera
12/03/1935-New York :One of the pampered entrants at a recent New York pet show, tiring of posing for endless photographers, thought this pose might make a better picture. It does

Scene From the Movie Hollywood Hotel
(Original Caption) 1937- Actors, Dick Powell and Rosemary lane, in a scene from the movie, "Hollywood Hotel". Director, Busby Berkeley, is shown at left

Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, and W.S. Van Dyke
Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor stand with W.S. Van Dyke, who is the director of The Man in Possession, the film in which they co-star

Group of Photographers Pose by Train
(Original Caption) 6/20/1937-New York, NYSome of the camera enthusiasts who left on the first camera train of the year, posing before the train left New York headed for Connecticut and scenery

NBC Crew Record Scene in Radio City
(Original Caption) An NBC television camera and parabolic microphone pick up a scene and its accompanying sound, in Radio City

Warner Baxter and Helen Vinson on Set
1938- Warner Baxter and Helen Vionson appear cool and comfortable as they register a close-up scene for Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938

Early Video Cameraman With Headphones
(Original Caption) 6/1938- Camera techinican atop a video until as he gets the range on a subject. The megaphone arrangement in front of the camera is to shield the lens from the glare

Television Set and Crew
An overhead view of the newsroom set at CBS Grand Central Studios, where first-generation RCA cameras are being used. In the back is a news anchor set complete with anchor

Congressional Leaders Speaking for Broadcast
Three congressional leaders, Speaker William Bankhead, House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, and House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin, participate in a test broadcast from the Mall in Washington, DC

President Roosevelt Broadcasting a Radio Address
1/30/1939-Washington, D.C.: President Franklin D

Police Officers Using Their New Cameras
(Original Caption) 3/13/1939-Beverly Hills, CATo more readily apprehend law violators and to secure Pictoral evidence of guilt so that there will be no dispute in court

Judy Garland with Camera at Train Station
(Original Caption) 3/31/1939-New York, NY- Turning tables on lensmen waiting to record her arrival at Grand Central Station, singing star Judy Garland goes clickety-click

Photographers Awaiting Arrival of Queen Elizabeth
Photographers in Ottawa wear formal attire as they wait to snap pictures of Queen Elizabeth and King George VI

Camera Crew Filming James Stewart
Cameramen follow James Stewart, who walks along the bottom of the Capitol's steps, in Washington, DC, on July 12, 1939. He is acting in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

M.P. Baron Wearing Flying Suit
(Original Caption) 1940-M.P. Baron, INP photographer, in flying costume with aerial camera

Technicians With Television Transmitters
Technicians adjust equipment on board a United Airlines Boeing transport plane

All products are expertly crafted, using premium materials, tailored to your specifications and promptly shipped