Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
Eastman View Camera No. 1 Variation 1
Premo Cameras, Rochester Optical
Division, Eastman Kodak Co., 1914,
pp. 30-31
Eastman
View No. 1 Variation 1 5x7
Label on the front standard
Serial Number on rear of the center bed
Date Introduced:
1914;
Years Manufactured:
1914-c.1917
Previous to 1914,
this camera appeared in Premo Cameras catalogs as the
Empire State
(Variation 3). It was renamed in the 1914 catalog, but is
apparently the same camera, even to the extent that the bed is made
rigid in this camera via a thumbscrew, whereas the bed of the
contemporaneous
Eastman View No. 2 is made rigid by a quick-connector. The
Eastman View No. 1 disappeared from
the Eastman
Professional Catalog between 1925 and 1929.
There are two variations: Eastman View No. 1
Variation 1 has its rise rack and pinion behind the
front standard, and has u-shape-profile flippers securing the lens
board. Eastman
View No. 1 Variation 2 has its rise rack and pinion next
to the front standard, and has flat flippers securing the lens board.
References:
Construction: front and 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: mahogany wood body; cherry base;
black fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 5x7, 6 ½x8 ½, 8x10
Notes:
Milwaukee Photo Materials Co. Catalogue No. 5,
Milwaukee Photo Materials Co. (Milwaukee, WI), undated c.1907, p.47
Eastman Professional Apparatus Catalog, c.1911
Premo Cameras, Rochester Optical Division,
Eastman Kodak Co., 1914, pp.
30-31
Premo Cameras, Rochester Optical Division,
Eastman Kodak Co., 1915, pp.
30-31
Number 30 Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic
Outfits, Lenses and Supplies,
Robey-French Co. (Boston, MA), c. 1915,
p. 47
Premo Cameras 1916,
Rochester Optical Division, Eastman Kodak Co.,
Rochester, NY, 1916,
pp. 28-29
Eastman Professional Photographic Apparatus and
Materials 1917, Eastman
Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), pp. 38-39
Premo Cameraa 1917, Rochester Optical
Division, Eastman Kodak Co.,
Rochester, NY, 1917,
pp. 28-29
Premo Cameras 1918, Rochester Optical Department,
Eastman Kodak Co., 1918, pp. 26-27
Premo Cameras 1919, Rochester Optical Department,
Eastman Kodak Co., 1919, pp. 24-25
Cameras, Photographic Apparatus and Supplies,
11th Ed., Hirsch & Kaiser (San Francisco,
CA), c. 1917,
p. 27
