Manhattan Optical Co., Rochester, New York, NY
Manhattan Tripod Camera
Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c. 1896 References:
Back to Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co.
Construction: front focus
via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails);
single swing; reversing by removable back; three-piece lens board
Materials: mahogany body, cherry base,
black fabric bellows; nickeled hardware
Sizes Offered: 6 ½x8 ½; 8x10
Notes: Similar to but
not identical to the contemporaneous Anthony
Reversible Back Camera.
Photographic Lenses, Cameras and Supplies, Manhattan Optical Co.
(Cresskill, N.J.), April 1896, p. 16
