In the year 1887 Emil Wünsche founded a shop for photographic articles in Hamburg. The own products of the shop were produced in workshops in Dresden. In 1896 the company moved into its new factory building in Reick near Dresden. 1898 the company became the Emil Wünsche Aktiengesellschaft für photographische Industrie Reick (Emil Wünsche AG). In 1902 Louis Lang became CEO. The company made many of the camera types which were en vogue for rollfilm, sheet film and film plates. A lot of accessories and other photographical goods were also made there: tripods, film, plate holders, darkroom equipment, enlargers, image finishing apparatuses and photo albums. It even made flashlamps like the Electra. For many of its cameras it made own lenses, viewfinders and shutters.
It was also distributor of lenses of the companies Steinheil, Voigtländer and Goerz, as well as vendor of shutters of Bausch & Lomb and Goerz.
Cameras
and lots of plate and rollfilm cameras, so many different types that the company had to associate with other camera makers in the merger that yielded ICA in 1909.
Enlargers
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| factory in Reick-Dresden in 1898
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| sales store office and woodwork machine room
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| carpenters' workshop and mechanicians' workshop
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| mechanicians' workshop and steam engine hall
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Links
- Cameras at www.collection-appareils.fr
