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Mandel-ette courtesy of Jason Penney on Flickr via \u00a0Camera–Wiki<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Do you remember street photographers? They were itinerant photographers who snapped people as they walked along city streets and sold their work accordingly. Sometimes the photo was a ferrotype (tintype) and the finished photo was ready in a minute or two. Other times the subject was given a number to call next day to pick up the photo.<\/p>\n

Those who took tintypes may have used the Mandel-ette made by the Chicago Ferrotype Co. (CFC), described in McKeown’s as, “Founded by Louis & Mandel Mandel, the Chicago Ferrotype Co. was the United States’ leading producer of direct positive ‘street’ cameras for tintypes, button tintypes, paper prints, and post cards.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

A Mandel-ette today is worth about 8x its original cost. \u00a0An ad from 1924 offers about 10,000 cameras for a free 10-day trial. Budding businessmen could pay just fifty cents US a week for twenty weeks to buy the $10 camera if they kept it. \u00a0CFC also sold supplies by mail. Interestingly, the camera seemed to be a basic box camera (fixed focus, small aperture) but offered prints in a minute long before Polaroid’s famous “pictures in a minute” system that was offered shortly after the second war ended.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to see the manual or visit Camera-Wiki<\/a> and after reading the material, follow the link at the bottom of the page (same manual). My thanks to George Dunbar for sharing this 1924 ad<\/a> he unearthed recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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