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The Daydark Specialty Company was a camera maker in St Louis, Missouri, in the early 20th century.[1] The company made a small number of ferrotype (tintype) cameras. McKeown states that they made both amateur cameras and ones for street photographers.[2] The street camera is wooden-bodied with leather covering. It is able to use both tintype buttons and 6×9 cm direct-positive postcards pioneered by the Chicago Ferrotype Company for its Mandel-ette camera. Like most ferrotype cameras, it has a de

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