Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co.

Criterion View Camera

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c.1909-at least 1925
Construction: rear focus via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails); double swing; reversing by removable back; three-piece lensboard;
Materials: cherry body (in later years, walnut stained), cherry base, black leatherette bellows (leather optional); nickeled hardware
Sizes Offered: 5x7 (photos); 6.5x8.5; 8x10
Notes: canvas case.  No further extension other than the one track was possible.  Other cameras in the Gundlach line had longer draw.
References:
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), June 1, 1909, no page number
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), 1911
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. Catalog, July 1 1912, pp. 25-26
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), 1914
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. (Rochester, NY), 1915, p. 21-22
Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. Catalog, May 1, 1920, pp. 14-15
Photographic Lenses and Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. Catalog #22, c. 1920's, p. 40-41
Photographic Lenses and Korona Cameras, Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co. Catalog No. 25, 1925, p. 41

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