STEREO SOLOGRAPH
Anthony & Scovill Company, New York 1902 - 1905?
With the merger of E. & H.T. Anthony & Company
and Scovill & Adams in 1902, Anthony
& Scovill introduced their own version of the Solograph Camera which had previously been introduced by Scovill
& Adams in 1898. The camera's lens standard design is believed to have
originated with the Flammang Camera Company, which introduced a Solograph-style
camera about 1897, this company being acquired by Scovill & Adams in late
1897.
Beginning with the Flammang Camera Company's
Solograph-style version, and continuing with Scovill & Adams' Solograph,
lens standards were constructed with circular brass posts. With the
introduction of Anthony & Scovill's Solograph, the circular brass posts
were replaced with square-shaped nickel-plated brass posts. By 1904, the lens
standard's design changed entirely, now having wooden posts within which the
lens board slid. This design would
continue through 1906, believed to be the last year of the Solograph's
production with the company's name being changed to Ansco in 1907.
This Stereo
Solograph with square nickel posts dates to 1902-1903, and is equipped with
Wollensak Optical's Senior Stereo Shutter having a "Solograph" badge.
Available in 4-1/4 x 6-1/2, by 1904 the Stereo Solograph was only offered in
5x7. Although several models of the standard Solograph Camera were still being
offered in 1906, the Stereo Solograph had been dropped. Very few examples are
seen today.