Rochester Optical Co., Rochester, NY
Rochester Optical & Camera
Co., Rochester, NY
Rochester View Variation 2
6 ½ x 8 ½
Another 6 ½ x 8 ½,
Serial No. 1400.
Bottom
Top
Label, lower front
standard.
Stamp, Serial No.
1400 - matching inside edges of the main and front platforms.
Back to Rochester Optical Group of Manufacturers
Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c. 1900-1901
Construction: front and
rear focus via rack and pinion (two gear
tracks on top of base rails); single swing; three-piece lens
board; reversing by removable back
Materials: mahogany body; cherry bed; black
fabric bellows; brass hardware;
Sizes Offered: 5x7; 5x8; 6 ½x8 ½;
8x10; 11x14; 14x17
Notes:
Rochester
View, Variation 1 has a top-mounted, spring-loaded lens board
retaining clip, and ground glass springs that point the same way.
Variation 2 retains the short front extension to the base, but
now the rear standard as well as the front focuses by rack and pinion,
there are two, bottom-mounted lens board retainers, and the ground glass
springs face opposite directions.
References:
Photography has Made the Sun an Artist, Andrew J. Lloyd (Boston,
MA) catalog, 1899, p.74
