Folmer & Schwing Co., NY, NY
Banquet Camera
EKC Professional Catalog, 1923, p.
30 7 x 17, all
brass thumbscrews Metal Label
on Front Standard 12 x 20, with
wooden main thumbscrews Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c. 1915-1929 The unusual
tilt-down lens board is
designed to provide extra swing (in addition
to the small swing capability of the rear standard) in order to have
sharp focus on a large seated group from the vantage point of a
ladder. This is a very substantially made camera. The camera
was discontinued by the 1929 catalog. Some examples, like the
top camera above, have all brass thumbscrews. Others, presumably
the ones made in the later years of production, have wooden knobs
instead of brass for the front and back focus; see the second and third
examples above. References:
7 x 17, with wooden main
thumbscrews
Construction: front and
rear focus via rack and pinion (two gear
tracks on top of base rails); not reversible; three-piece
lens board
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base;
black fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 7x17; 12x20
Notes:
Milwaukee Photo Materials Co. Catalogue No. 5,
Milwaukee Photo Materials Co. (Milwaukee, WI), undated c.1907, p.50
Eastman Professional Photographic
Apparatus and Materials,
Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), 1915
Number 30 Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic
Outfits, Lenses and Supplies,
Robey-French Co. (Boston, MA), c. 1915,
p. 50
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Outfits and Supplies No. 38,
Sweet, Wallach & Co. (Chicago, IL), c.1915, p.59
Eastman Professional Photographic Apparatus and
Materials 1917, Eastman
Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), pp. 48-49
Cameras, Photographic Apparatus and Supplies,
11th Ed., Hirsch & Kaiser (San Francisco,
CA), c. 1917,
p. 32
Catalogue of Cameras, Kodaks, Lenses and
Photographic Accessories 1919-1920, Central
Camera Co. (Chicago, IL), 1919, p. 36
Eastman Professional Photographic Apparatus and
Materials 1920, Eastman
Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), pp. 44-45
Catalogue No. 10 and Bargain Book No. 11 of
Cameras, Kodaks, Lenses and Photographic Accessories, 1920-1921;
Central Camera Co. (Chicago, IL), 1920, p.33
Eastman Professional
Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus and Materials,
Eastman Kodak Co., 1923, p. 30
Catalogue No. 21 of Cameras, Kodaks, Lenses and Photographic Accessories
1923-1924,
Central Camera Co. (Chicago, IL), dated 1923-1924, p.49
Eastman Professional Catalogue
of Photographic Apparatus and Materials,
Eastman Kodak Co.
(Rochester, NY), 1925, p. 27
Catalogue No. 27 of Cameras, Kodaks, Lenses and
Photographic Accessories 1925-1926, Central
Camera Co. (Chicago, IL), 1925, p. 61
Catalogue No. 31 of Cameras, Kodaks, Lenses and
Photographic Accessories 1926-1927, Central
Camera Co. (Chicago, IL), 1926, p. 74
Studio and Kodak Finishing Equipment Catalog,
Z. T. Briggs Photo Supply Co. (Kansas
City, MO, c. 1927, p. 60
Professional Cameras and Sundries,
Folmer Graflex Corporation (Rochester,
NY), c. 1928, p. 18
No. 29 Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Outfits and Supplies,
Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc. (St. Louis, MO), May 1, 1929, p. 5
Catalogue No. 42 of Cameras, Kodaks, Lenses and Photographic Accessories
1932-33,
Central Camera Co. (Chicago, IL), p. 44
