Rochester
Disambiguation Page
| 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.)" |
- Rochester is a big city in the state of New York, USA. Since 1880 it became one of the centre's of the world's optical industry. A lot of American optical companies were or are based there.
- Rochester is a city in Minnesota. At least one renowned camera maker was based there.
At least two US companies were called Rochester in the late XIXth century:
- Rochester Optical Co. and
- Rochester Camera Mfg. Co., later Rochester Camera and Supply Co.
These were merged together in 1899 into Rochester Optical and Camera Co., which was taken over by Kodak in 1903.
Links
- Georges Eastman House in Rochester at www.vieilalbum.com
