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Type of entity
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Folmer & Schwing Manufacturing Company
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- Folmer & Schwing Co.
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Dates of existence
1887-1904
History
Manufacturer of bicycle and gas lighting fixtures, founded in 1887 by William Frederick Folmer and William E. Schwing, incorporated 1890. In 1896 the comapny begane producing cameras, introducing bicycle mounted cameras known as cycle graphics. In 1898 the firm introduced the Graflex camera. In 1907, the company was dissolved and became the Folmer & Schwing Division of Eastman Kodak Company. The company changed it's name again in 1928 to the Folmer Graflex Corporation and again in 1946 to Graflex Inc. The company kept this title as a division under General Precision Equipment from 1956-1968 and under the Singer Corporation from 1968-1973.
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Folmer & Schwing Co. (1905-1907)
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Dates of the relationship
1887-1904
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