The Gundlach/Manhattan Companies

Field View Cameras

Manhattan Optical Co. Catalog, 1900, back cover

Gundlach Optical Co. (c.1885-1902)
Milburn Korona Co. (1894-acquired by Gundlach in 1896)
Manhattan Optical Co., Cresskill, NY (?-1902)
Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co., Rochester, NY (1902 - c.1926)
Gundlach Manufacturing Corp. (c.1926)
Seebold Invisible Camera Co. (1928-? bought Gundlach Mfg. Corp.)

The Gundlach Optical Co. made lenses only until they acquired the Milburn Korona Co. (which had a line of view cameras) in 1896. Gundlach continued to manufacture lenses (such as the Turner-Reich Convertible Anastigmat) and cameras. They merged with the Manhattan Optical Co. which brought in a line of mainly leather-covered red bellows cameras. The company was re-named by John E. Seebold in 1928.

Scans of number of catalogs can be found here.  Scans of Gundlach and Manhattan catalogs are here.

	Criterion View (c. 1909-1925+)
	Gundlach Universal View and Portrait Camera (c. 1901)
	Korona Banquet Camera (c. 1914-1930's)
	Korona Commercial View (c. 1932)
	Korona Compact View (1900-c. 1906)
	Korona Home Portrait Camera (c. 1915-1930's)
	Korona Panoramic View Camera (c. 1914-1930's)
	Korona Pictorial View (c. 1920's-1930's)
	Korona View Camera Variation 1 (c. 1900-1903)
	Korona View Camera Variation 2 (c. 1909-1930's)
	Korona Wide Angle Camera (c. 1925-1931)
	Manhattan Tripod Camera (c. 1896)
	Wizard View Variation 1 (c. 1899-1900)
	Wizard View Variation 2 (c. 1899-1900)
	Wizard View Variation 3 (c. 1903-1909)
	Wizard View Variation 4 (c. 1909)

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