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'''Unger & Hoffmann''' was founded in 1878. The company made [[camera|cameras]], light sensitive photo paper and [[film plate]]s. [[Mimosa]] took over the film plate and photo paper production in 1926.
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'''Unger & Hoffmann''' was founded in 1878 as a paper maker. The company began making cameras and [[magic lantern]]s<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/laterna_magica/7394732202 Unger & Hoffmann 'Phantasmagoria' magic lantern] in the [https://www.flickr.com/people/laterna_magica/ Dagestad Collection], at Flickr.</ref><ref>[http://lucerna.exeter.ac.uk/hardware/index.php?id=2000173 Unger & Hoffmann 'Talisman II' lantern]; Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource, lucerna.exeter.ac.uk, item 1000776. Accessed 8 October 2020.</ref> in the 1890s, and later made photo paper and plates, and published sets of slides for magic lanterns.<ref>[https://collections.eastman.org/people/61107/unger--hoffmann/objects Lantern slides by Unger & Hoffmann] in the collection of the [https://www.eastman.org/ Eastman Museum].</ref> [[Mimosa]] took over the film plate and photo paper production in 1926.<ref>[https://www.optical-toys.com/index.php/de/hersteller_details/unger-hoffmann-ag.html Unger & Hoffmann] at ''Optical Toys''</ref>
  
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==Cameras==
 
*plate camera Apollo (1897)
 
*plate camera Apollo (1897)
 
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*Verette Box
 
*Verette Box
 
*Verette II
 
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*[https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/20097468_-unger-and-hoffmann-field-camera-c-1895 Unnamed 13x18cm tailboard camera by Unger & Hoffmann], c1895, sold together with another similar camera at the auction ''Photographica & Film'', 12 October 2013, by Photo Team Breker in Cologne (listing at the ''Liveauctioneers'' site).
  
 
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Unger & Hoffmann was founded in 1878 as a paper maker. The company began making cameras and magic lanterns[1][2] in the 1890s, and later made photo paper and plates, and published sets of slides for magic lanterns.[3] Mimosa took over the film plate and photo paper production in 1926.[4]

Cameras

  • plate camera Apollo (1897)
  • Magazin Box
  • Reisekamera 24×30cm (1890)
  • Tropenkamera
  • Vera Favorit
  • Verax (1908)
  • Verette Box
  • Verette II


Notes

  1. Unger & Hoffmann 'Phantasmagoria' magic lantern in the Dagestad Collection, at Flickr.
  2. Unger & Hoffmann 'Talisman II' lantern; Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource, lucerna.exeter.ac.uk, item 1000776. Accessed 8 October 2020.
  3. Lantern slides by Unger & Hoffmann in the collection of the Eastman Museum.
  4. Unger & Hoffmann at Optical Toys

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