Kombi Camera

Alfred C. Kemper
Chicago, IL
ca. 1894

This is a box-form miniature camera for 25 exposures, 1 1/8” x 1 1/8” on specifically spooled roll film. In addition to being a camera, it offered the feature of also being a viewer and even had the phrase “ a combined camera and graphoscope” stamped on the front. advertisements in 1896 claimed that 50,000 had been sold in one year.