Rochester Camera and Supply Co.
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| Cycle Poco No. 3 with Unicum shutter image by HamWithCam (Image rights) |
In 1891 the Rochester Camera Mfg. Co. was founded by H. B. Carlton, the brother of Rochester Optical's founder W. F. Carlton. Later it became the Rochester Camera and Supply Co., and after a while it was the Rochester Camera Co.. In 1899 it joined the new group Rochester Optical and Camera Co. which was taken over by Kodak in 1903. A main product line of Rochester Camera and Supply were the Poco folding cameras. The cameras were equipped with RCCo or Bausch & Lomb shutter.
| photography related industry in Rochester (New York) |
| American Camera | Bausch & Lomb | Blair | Century | Crown Optical Co. | Elgeet | Folmer & Schwing | Gassner and Marx | Graflex | Gundlach | Ilex | JML | Kodak | Milburn | Monroe | PMC | Ray | Reichenbach, Morey and Will | Rochester Camera and Supply Co. | Rochester Optical Co. | Rochester Panoramic Camera Co. | Seneca | Sunart | Walker | Webster Industries | Wollensak |
| and in Rochester (Minnesota) |
| Conley |
| external links |
| graflex.org - Rudolf Kingslake's "Optical industry in Rochester (N.Y.)" |
Cameras
- Poco (leather coating even inside case)
- Cycle Poco No. 1/2/3/4/5
- Folding Poco
- Folding Poco A
- Folding Gem Poco
- Gem Poco
- King Poco
- Poco (4x5)
- Pocket Poco (3¼ x 4¼)
- Pocket Poco A (3¼ x 4¼ strut folder, the same as the Pocket Monroe A)
- Poco View
- Rochester View
- Tele Photo Cycle Poco B/C/D
- Tele Photo Poco A
- Stereo Poco
Links
- Pocket Poco A at Antique Wood Cameras
- Tele Photo Cycle Poco on BoxCameras.com via Internet Archive: The Wayback Machine
- Poco View and Rochester View at Field Cameras of the United States: 1879-1930
- Listing of Rochester Cameras with reference information at Historic Camera
- Cycle Poco PDF manual from OrphanCameras.com website
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| Cycle Poco No. 3 with Unicum shutter image by Luis Cozeto (Image rights) |
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| Gem Poco Camera, 1895 image by Gregory Peterson (Image rights) |
