Wünsche
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| plate camera with Dagor lens of Goerz |
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.
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| Mars Camera 1893 |
It was also distributor of lenses of the companies Steinheil, Voigtländer and Goerz, as well as vendor of shutters of Bausch & Lomb and Goerz.
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Cameras
- detective camera Mars-Kamera
- other magazine cameras: Nero, Legion, Juwel, Kobold
- Bosco box and folding cameras for rollfilm, including the SLR "Bosco-Reflex"
- Nymphe rollfilm strut folder
- mirror camera Ada
- reflex camera Reicka
- Detectiv-Camera "Photo-Jumelle"
- Favorit plate folders
- Favorit V bicyclist's camera
- Schüler-Apparat (student's apparatus, beginner's view camera)
- Reise-Cameras "Furror", Excelsior", "Meteor", "Sirius", "Eureka"
- Box cameras "Lilli", "Sport II", "Tuck", "Bosko 98"
- Box camera Mars 99
- Juwel-Klapp-Camera plate folder
- Gnom
- Hesekiel'sche Spiegel-Reflex-Camera
- Vest pocket camera "Piccolo"
- Matador
- Reick
- Briefmarken-Camera (with 12 lenses for 12 miniature portraits on 9x12cm plates)
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
| Camera industry in Dresden |
| Balda | Certo | Eho-Altissa | Eichapfel | Ernemann | Feinmess | Heyde | Hamaphot | Huth | Hüttig | ICA | Ihagee | Kochmann | Kerman | KW | Eugen Loeber | Ludwig | Mentor | Merkel | Meyer | Mimosa | Pentacon | Richter | Sommer | Stübiger | Unger & Hoffmann | Werner | Wünsche | Zeiss Ikon | Zeh |
| Camera distributors in Dresden |
| Stöckig |
| Camera industry in Freital |
| Beier | Pouva | Stein & Binnewerg | Thowe | Welta |
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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 |
The factory
In 1896 the company moved to new factory building in Reick. This was a courageous step since Reick near Dresden didn't have neither a railway station nor a tramway station. Both facilities were expected for the next future. The huge main building was built around a yard. In the yard was the machine house for the steam engine, with a chimney as high as 35m. Four dwelling houses, two for white-collar and two for blue-collar staff were built next to the building. A big building was the horse barn and horse cart garage behind the main building.
In 1898 a fire destroyed lots of the building. It was reconstructed until mid 1899.
Links
- Cameras at www.collection-appareils.fr
