Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
Empire State #2
Premo Catalog, 1913, p. 32-33
5 x 7
Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c. 1908-1913
Construction: front and
rear focus via rack and pinion (two gear
tracks on top of base rails); double swing; three-piece lens
board; reversing by removable back
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base;
black leatherette bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 5x7,
6 ½x8 ½, 8x10
Notes: This camera would easily be mistaken
for an
Empire State Improved or a
Century
No.2 (both made by EKC during this era, but look closely.
It has a plumb bob that the Empire State Improved does not, a
quick-lock manner of securing the front track
rather than a thumbscrew, a
piano-hinge for the front track, and a sliding tripod block.
The back on the illustrated camera is from another camera and so would
not be typical of this model. By 1915, the
Eastman View Camera
No. 2 is introduced as an improvement to the Empire State
and Century No. 2 cameras.
References:
Complete Catalog of Cameras, Apparatus &
Accessories for the Amateur Photographer, Catalog A, Sweet,
Wallach & Co. (Chicago, IL) Catalog A,
c.1908, p. 43
Photographic Cameras, Supplies and Lenses, Williams, Brown &
Earle, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) Catalog, c. 1908, pp. 33-34
Catalogue of Professional Photographic Apparatus
and Materials, Eastman Kodak Co.
(Rochester, N.Y.), 1909, pp.30-31
Lloyd's Photographic Supplies,
Andrew J. Lloyd Co. (Boston, MA) Catalog, c.
1909, p. 28
Premo Cameras, Rochester Optical
Division, Eastman Kodak Co.
(Rochester, NY), 1909, p.
30-31
Eastman Kodak Co. Professional Apparatus Catalog, 1910
Premo Cameras, Rochester Optical Division,
Eastman Kodak Co., 1910, pp.
30-31
Photographic Apparatus and Supplies Catalog No.
35, Sweet, Wallach & Co. (Chicago, IL),
c. 1910, p. 56
Descriptive Price List of Photographic Materials,
George Murphy, Inc. (New York, NY), 1910-1911, pp.
43-44
Premo Cameras, Rochester Optical Division,
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY, 1911,
p. 32-33
Catalogue of Eastman Professional
Photographic Apparatus and Materials,
Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), c. 1911,
pp. 44-45
Premo Cameras, Rochester Optical Division,
Eastman Kodak Co., 1912, pp.
32-33
Illustrated Catalogue, The Gloeckner & Newby
Co. (New York, NY), c.1912, p. 14
Premo Cameras, Rochester Optical Division,
Eastman Kodak Co., 1913, pp.
32-33
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Outfits and Supplies No. 38,
Sweet, Wallach & Co. (Chicago, IL), c.1915, p.51
