Round photograph of women in 1898

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Small round sepia photograph of a women in a hat and a Victorian style dress. Image is 2 1/2 " on a 3 1/2 x 4 1/2" stiff board mount with info on the back. "This photograph was made with a Kodak Camera. Pacific Coast Agency, 529 Commercial St. San Francisco. Sam G. Partridge. For particulars of this latest phase of photograph send for the "Kodak Primer". W. B. Tyler phot. printer, 506 Battery Street rooms 27-28" The  camera was the Kodak #1, the first camera marketed to amateurs for "snapshot" photography. The round image was designed to make it easy for amateurs to get a uniform image even if the camera was tilted.