Empire State Camera

Rochester Empire State image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)

The Empire State Camera was made from 1894 to 1914 by Rochester Optical Co. . It was a wooden view camera for film plates. It was made of mahogany.

ad in a 1910 issue of Camera Craft scanned by Edward Vielmetti  (Image rights)

Links

• The Empire State Camera at Antique & 19th Century Cameras (archived)
• Empire State at Historic Camera History Librarium
• Empire State No. 2, as advertised in a 1910 edition of Camera Craft magazine
• Empire camera PDF manual from OrphanCameras.com website