Blair
photography related industry in Rochester (New York) |
American Camera | Bausch & Lomb | Blair | Century | Crown Optical Co. | Elgeet | Folmer & Schwing | Gassner and Marx | Graflex | Gundlach | Ilex | JML | Kodak | Milburn | Monroe | PMC | Ray | Reichenbach, Morey and Will | Rochester Camera and Supply Co. | Rochester Optical Co. | Rochester Panoramic Camera Co. | Seneca | Sunart | Walker | Webster Industries | Wollensak |
and in Rochester (Minnesota) |
Conley |
external links |
graflex.org - Rudolf Kingslake's "Optical industry in Rochester (N.Y.)" |
The Blair Camera Co. was an American camera maker based in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1879 it was Blair Tourograph Co., named after a camera type introduced in 1878. In 1890 it bought another Boston-based camera maker, the Boston Camera Company. From this company it took over the "Hawk-Eye" box camera series. In 1899 Blair became a division of Kodak. It was relocated to Rochester, New York, the home of Kodak. First the Hawk-Eye cameras were continued by Blair, later the camera type name was reused by Kodak for several later camera types.
Cameras
- Tourograph
- Lucidograph
- Cincinnati
- Champion
Links
- Blair view cameras at Field Cameras of the United States: 1879-1930 [1]
- Blair's Hawk-Eye Detective camera at Scott's Photographica [2]
- Stereo Hawk-Eye Mod. 3 and 4 of Blair Camera Division at BoxCameras.com [3]
- Blair Weno Stereo at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr