The Punch magazine (1886):

If they knew what I wear when I walk in the street,
It should be quite a terror to people I meet;
They would fly when they saw me, and ne’er stop to chat,
For I carry a camera up in my hat.

A Herr Luders, of Görlitz, has patented this,
And I think the idea is by no means a miss;
With a hole in my hat for the lens to peep through,
And a dry plate behind, I take portrait or view.

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