Feb 092010
Perusing the amazing Project Gutenberg, I stumbled across a motherload of vintage photography ads. From the No. 1 Autographic Kodak special pictured aside to the photo oil colors I’ve mentioned before, this is a real treasure chest of nostalgia.
A lot has changed in the last 90-odd years. f4.0 was considered fast back then, for one, and “practically free of double image” was considered high praise for a lens. Most of these ads are for products produced by boutique manufacturers long since forgotten: Ica-Contessa, Willoughby’s (the world’s largest camera supply house), Wollensack, Glundlach, and more. They’re all here.
Click on the image to launch the vintage photography ad slideshow.
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[...] up info and this was in the search, so had a look and glad I did. Hope you enjoy as much as I did. Vintage Photography Ads PS: Click the photo of the old Kodak camera and then you will see a start just over the left of [...]
Actually, ICA-Contessa was a German brand, and was one of the companies that formed the original ZEISS-Ikon conglomerate in the mid-twenties (not to be confused with Carl Zeiss Jena, the lensmakers).
Updated accordingly. Thanks.