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Stereographs, Science
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- Graphic material
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2018.09.04.03.01
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Statement of scale (cartographic)
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[ca. 1850-1992] (Creation)
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- Zeiss Ikon
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17 photographs : stereographs, black and white & colour
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Zeiss Ikon was formed in Germany in 1926 by the merger of camera manufacturers Contessa-Nettel, Ernemann, Goerz and Ica.
The company formed one part of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, another part being the optical company Carl Zeiss. Logically, most of the Zeiss Ikon cameras were equipped with Carl Zeiss lenses; and the formerly independent companies, in particular Goerz, had to shut down their own lens manufacture.
The merged company was also obliged to use Compur shutters for 80% of its cameras. Thus only the simplest cameras could get cheaper shutters like the Klio. Soon AG Hahn für Optik und Mechanik, Kassel, and Goerz Photochemisches Werk GmbH, Berlin, joined the Zeiss Ikon syndicate. Both companies, Zeiss Ikon and Hahn, were also in the business of producing keys, latches an lock cylinders. This business was more and more concentrated in the former optical factories of Goerz in Berlin.
The group became one of the big companies in the photo technology capital Dresden, with plants in Stuttgart and Berlin. It continued several products of its constituents for a while, but also created new ones like the quality folder Ikonta and the medium format rangefinder camera Super Ikonta. Until WWII Zeiss Ikon was the world's market leading maker of 8mm movie cameras. In addition to cameras and lenses, Zeiss Ikon also produced some optics for medical applications.
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File contains stereographs depicting various planets, maps and people studying.
2 Stereoscopic photographs by Keystone View Co.
3 Stereoscopic photograph by Kilburn Brothers
1 Stereoscopic photograph by C. Beirdstadt
3 Stereoscopic photographs by Young People's Missionary Movement
1 Stereoscopic photograph by T. W. Ingersoll
1 Stereoscopic photograph by Carl Zeiss
1 Stereoscopic photograph by Paul Wing Jr.
5 Stereoscopic photographs by unidentified publishers
1 series of globe diagrams by Underwood & Underwood
Notes area
Physical condition
Most are in good condition; some are fading or cracked
Immediate source of acquisition
The collection was collected by the late Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass and donated to the Ryerson University Library and Archives by Gail Bass in 2018.
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- Keystone View Company (Subject)
- Kilburn Brothers (Subject)
- C. Biersdtat (Subject)
- Young People's Missionary Movement (Subject)
- T. W. Ingersoll (Subject)
- Underwood & Underwood (Subject)
- Paul Wing Jr. (Subject)