Description

Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Company, Published 1925. Wraps, staple bound, 52 pp.; 23 cm; trade catalog (Catalog No. 25, introductory letter dated January 1, 1925); illustrated with black-and-white photographic reproductions and product engravings throughout. In Good Plus condition. Tan mottled paper covers with light edge bumping and creasing, mild shelf wear, and some soiling to the back cover. Vertical fold to title page. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages toned but otherwise unmarked.Trade catalog of the Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Company of Rochester, New York, offering the firm's photographic lenses, Korona cameras, prism binoculars, and other optical products. Lenses described and priced include the Turner-Reich Convertible and Symmetrical Anastigmats, the Series V Anastigmat F:9, the Radar Anastigmat F:4.5, the Hyperion Diffusion Portrait Lens F:4, the Achromatic Meniscus Portrait Lens, the Perigraphic Convertible, the Rapid Rectigraphic, and several wide-angle lenses. Also illustrated are the Korona Petit, Series I, and Series V cameras, the Korona Panoramic View and Banquet cameras, the folding studio stand, negative racks, and the Korona Radio Crystal Receiver, alongside customer testimonials and sample photographs.Gundlach-Manhattan was formed in 1902 when the Gundlach Optical Company of Rochester merged with the Manhattan Optical Company of Cresskill, New Jersey. The firm had acquired the Korona camera line in 1896 and continued making lenses and view cameras under the "It's all in the lens" slogan until the mid-1920s, when it was reorganized as the Gundlach Manufacturing Company.