Rochester (New York)
| 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 the iconic oldest metropolis of the World's optical industry. The best known companies are the contacts maker Bausch & Lomb and the 20th century dominating camera maker Kodak. Many of the actual and former optical companies dedicated at least a part of their workforce to the making of cameras, camera lenses, film, camera accessories and other photographic goods. "Rochester-made means quality" was a wide-spread motto from 1890 to 1930.
