One of the cameras mentioned in John Wade’s fascinating new book The Ingenious Victorians is the Mammoth (cover picture left shows it at the bottom).
This was the “world’s biggest camera” commissioned in 1899 by the Chicago and Alton Company who had built “the handsomest train the world”. The company called in Chicago photographer George ‘Flashlight’ Lawrence, whose studio slogan was ‘The Hitherto Impossible in Photography Is Our Speciality’.