Gundlach Optical Co.
Rochester, New York, NY
Korona View Camera Variation 1
Andrew J.
Lloyd & Co. Catalog, p. 107 6 ½ x 8 ½ Bottom Top Label, lower front standard. Assembly No. 10, inside edge of
front extension. Date Introduced: 1900
; Years Manufactured: c. 1900-1903 References:
Back to Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co.
Construction: front focus
via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails);
double swing; reversing by removable back; three-piece lens board
Materials: mahogany body, cherry base,
black fabric bellows; nickeled hardware
Sizes Offered: 6 ½x8 ½;8x10
Notes: To paraphrase George Eastman, people
like names with k's in them. Korona was used for
two different view cameras and a host of leather-covered hand cameras.
The back of the camera had formerly been a reducing back that had been
crudely painted black by brush. The current back, made by Seneca,
though, instead of Gundlach, fits perfectly except for the brad
location. The back clip location was moved to accomodate, but that
was easier than trying to remove and change the position of the brads. The camera is not
present in the 1899 Korona catalog (in fact, no view cameras are), and
the preface to the 1900 catalog states that two styles of view camera
are offered for the first time.
Korona Cameras, Lenses, Photographic Goods,
Gundlach Optical Co. (Rochester, NY) Catalog, 1900,
pp. 20
Catalogue of Photographic Sundries, Jas.
H. Smith & Co. (Chicago, IL) Catalog, July 1 1901, p. 22
Korona Camera, Gundlach Optical Co.
(Rochester, NY) Catalog, 1901, p.
24
Photographic Encyclopedia, Andrew J. Lloyd & Co. (Boston, MA),
1901, p. 107
Catalogue No. IIII of Professional and Amateur Photographer's
Supplies, Wm. F. Uhlman (St. Joseph, MO), c.1901, p. 39
Korona Cameras, Gundlach Optical Co. (Rochester, NY) Catalog,
1902, p. 21
1903 Koronas, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co., (Rochester, NY)
Catalog, 1903, p. 41
