PHOTOGRAPHY FOX DETECTIVE PURPOSES.
«. Mr W. J. Lancaster has just patented a clever apparatus to b« ueed for detective purposes or ordinary portrait photography. The apparatus is fixed iv a watch case, which opens m the ordinary manner by meaDS of a spring. As ths case opens, a minatare je,aa ia exposed for a mcment, oloeed again, and the thing ia done. The sensitive pktas to be mcd for the camera are mluiitura dry plato 3, and a store of thoße is to be carried by the operator m a specially prepared locket to be hang on the watch chain. Thi3 minature apparatus is add to be welcomed by the detective police. It is stated tint for the sake of experiment, accurate likneßsea were taken of a large number of the persons who mixed m the crowd at the last SooiaUata 1 meetlpg,— Amateur ■photographer,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1532, 14 April 1887, Page 2
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145PHOTOGRAPHY FOX DETECTIVE PURPOSES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1532, 14 April 1887, Page 2
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