Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co., Rochester, New York, NY
Criterion View Camera
Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY),
June
1, 1909, no page number (would be 24) 5 x 7 Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c.1909-at
least 1925 References:
Back to Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co.
Construction: rear
focus via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on
top of base rails); double swing; reversing by removable back;
three-piece lens board;
Materials: cherry body (in later years,
walnut stained), cherry base, black leatherette bellows (leather
optional); nickeled hardware
Sizes Offered: 5x7 (photos); 6 ½x8 ½;
8x10
Notes: canvas case. No further
extension other than the one track was possible. Other cameras in
the Gundlach line had longer draw. In the
1915 catalog, the Criterion was part of the
Home Portrait Outfit; by 1918, a specialized
Home
Portrait Camera had been introduced.
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY),
June 1, 1909, no page
number (would be 24-25)
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY),
1911
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. Catalog, July 1
1912, pp. 25-26
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY),
1914
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY),
1915, pp. 21-22
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY),
Jan. 1, 1918, pp. 17-18
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. Catalog, May 1,
1920, pp. 14-15
Photographic Lenses and Korona Cameras,
Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. Catalog #22, c. 1922,
pp. 40-41
Photographic Lenses and Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan
Optical Co. Catalog No. 25,
1925, p. 41
