Wonder Photo Cannon

image by Michael Cleveland

The Wonder Cannon Camera was a magazine camera for coin-sized ferrotype film plates, made ca. 1910 by the Chicago Ferrotype Co.. The last exposed plate could be released through a duct into the simple can in which the used plates were collected. It had notch and bead sights as viewfinder. Its upper part with the magazine of unused plates and the lens and shutter was designed like an old naval cannon.