Unger & Hoffmann
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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
Unger & Hofmann 18×24cm view camera image by SBA73 (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ Unger & Hoffmann 'Phantasmagoria' magic lantern in the Dagestad Collection, at Flickr.
- ↑ Unger & Hoffmann 'Talisman II' lantern; Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource, lucerna.exeter.ac.uk, item 1000776. Accessed 8 October 2020.
- ↑ Lantern slides by Unger & Hoffmann in the collection of the Eastman Museum.
- ↑ Unger & Hoffmann at Optical Toys
Links
- 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).