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Revision as of 18:22, 10 July 2015
| 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.)" |
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| Century Model 46 image by Bill Strong (Image rights) |
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| Century Camera image by OZBOX (Image rights) |
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| image by Missouri History Museum (Image rights) |
Century Camera Co. was founded in 1900 by three former employees of Rochester Optical Co..
The company achieved a high quality of its plate cameras, so that it had a 25% market share in 1902.
In 1905, the company was purchased by the Rochester Panoramic Camera Co.
In 1908 the company became Kodak's Century Camera Division which continued the brand Century until 1920.
 
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links
- History and studio cameras of Century Camera Co. at historiccamera.com [1]
- Century View Cameras at Field Cameras of the United States [2]
