CASE MAKERS
Baltimore Shew, Jacob
Boston Phillips, Sampson Company
Boston Buffum, J.
Boston Carter, T. H. and Co
Boston Marvin, T. R.
Boston Plumbe, John
Boston Shew, William
Boston Studley and Gordon
Boston Studley, Hiram
Boston, Philadelphia Shew, Myron
Connecticut ( New Haven) Peck, Searles, Susan A.
Connecticut ( New Haven) "Hann, George
Daguerreian case maker, New Haven, Conn., 1859-1860. No business address listed; he lived at 140 Wallace Street. Information corrected to November, 1997"
Connecticut ( New Haven) "Hall, Henry S.
Daguerreian case maker and daguerreian superintendent, New Haven, Conn. In 1850-1851 he was listed as a case maker, with no business address. From 1852 to 1854 he was listed as a daguerreian superintendent. He lived at 32 George Street. I"
Connecticut ( New Haven) "Hafner, Daniel
Daguerreian case maker, New Haven, Conn., 1859-1860. No business address was listed; he lived on East Water Street at the corner of Hamilton Street."
Connecticut ( New Haven) Peck; Healy, Thomas Listed as a daguerreian case maker in New Haven, Conn., 1859-1860. No business address listed; he lived at 81 Franklin Street++
Connecticut (Hartford) Parsons, H. S. & Company (D-cases)
Connecticut (Southampton⁵) Hart Daguerreian case maker, Southampton, Conn., 1849, in partnership as Hart and Woodruff
Connecticut (Waterbury) Holmes Booth & Hayden (many without gilt) (D-cases)
Connecticut (Waterbury) Halvorson, H. (D-cases)
Connecticut (Waterbury) Peck, Samuel (D-cases)
Connecticut (Waterbury) Peck, Samuel and Halvorson (D-cases)
Connecticut (Waterbury) Scovill Manufacturing Company (D-cases)
Connecticut (Waterbury) Scovill Manufacturing Company (1857: buys out Samuel Peck & Co. /H. Halverson)
Connecticut (Waterbury) Holmes, Boothe, and Hayden
London Longman and Green Company
London George Routledge and Sons
London Rock Brothers and Payne. London
London Clowes, William & Son
Massachusetts Littlefield, Parsons and Co. (A.P. Critchlow), (D-cases), 1866: company changes name to the Florence Manufacturing Company; North Hampton, MA and by 1860 also in Florence, MA
Massachusetts Littlefield, Parsons and Company
Massachusetts Critchlow, A. P. (D-cases) The American plastics industry began in Florence in 1843 when A.P. Critchlow experimented with a new substance called the Florence Compound---a crude, brittle plastic made from resin, wood fibers and shellac from which he manufactured buttons, jewelry cases, revolver handles and its most successful product, dagosffeotype cases
Massachusetts, Northamton "Hill, Samuel L.
Daguerreian case maker, Florence (Northampton), Mass., 1853-1860 and later. Hill was a partner in Critchlow & Co., with Isaac Parsons and Alfred P. Critchlow."
Massachusetts, Northamton Florence Manufacturing Nonotuck Silk Company, producing the nationally famous Corticelli brand until it closed in 1932.
New York Worthington, R. Company
New York Riker, J. C.
New York Leavitt and Allen
New York Brady, Matthew
New York Chapman, Levi
New York Riker, John C.
New York Barnett, Frederick & Son
New York Beckers & Piard
New Yotk E. & H.T. Anthony Company History
Newark Larwill, Ebenezer
Paris de Bure, I.
Philadelphia Cremer, James
Philadelphia Eickmeyer, Henry A.
Philadelphia Jennings, Robert
Philadelphia Simons, Montgomery P.
Philadelphia Simons, Noah¹
Philadelphia Voightlander. W. & F. Langenheim
Philadelphia Langenheim, W. and F
E. & H.T. Anthony Company History
E. & H.T. Anthony
Edward Anthony was a civil engineer with formal scientific training at Columbia. He was interested in photography and so he purchased lessons from Samuel F.B Morse. Anthony, now equipped with this new pioneering skill, became an expert in daguerreotype photography.
In 1842, E. Anthony opened his Daguerreotype gallery in New York. He established an association with a series of partners and became well know in New York for his daguerreotype gallery. In one of his photographic pursuits, he began to survey the northeast boundary of the united states. Some of these early early photos are credited as the first used by the US government to assist in the Webster-Ashburn treaty of 1842, which established the boundary between Maine and Quebec.
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E. & H.T. Anthony Company History
E. & H.T. Anthony
Edward Anthony was a civil engineer with formal scientific training at Columbia. He was interested in photography and so he purchased lessons from Samuel F.B Morse. Anthony, now equipped with this new pioneering skill, became an expert in daguerreotype photography.
In 1842, E. Anthony opened his Daguerreotype gallery in New York. He established an association with a series of partners and became well know in New York for his daguerreotype gallery. In one of his photographic pursuits, he began to survey the northeast boundary of the united states. Some of these early early photos are credited as the first used by the US government to assist in the Webster-Ashburn treaty of 1842, which established the boundary between Maine and Quebec.
In 1847 he opened a separate shop devoted exclusively to photographic supplies. Sales grew rapidly and he ceased operations in his daguerrotypist gallery.
In 1850, competition increased due to the introduction of a new type of silver plate manufacturing by Scovill and by the Paris firm Charles Christofle. This drove Anthony to start the production of daguerreotype cases, camera boxes, and photographic chemicals. Additionally, Anthony sent a representative Samuel Holmes with an assistant on a tour of major inland cities east of the Mississippi, as far as St. Louis. This marketing campaign proved quite successful.
By 1852, The business expanded enough and Edward took on two silent partners. His Brother Henry T. Anthony joined. Henry also had a background in civil engineering and also banking. The other partner was a financier.
In 1854 The Anthony factory was located at New York city's, Harlem Rail Road Depot, occupying 1/4 of the building. It was stated in an Anthony catalogue that this factory was the most extensive apparatus and photographic material manufacturer in the wold. Anthony manufactured two cameras of his design, a camera-box and a bellows-box, accomplishing all wood and metal work in this factory. He also had an extensive line of photo cases he manufactured, where he employed young boys and girls to perform simple construction tasks. Additional cameras that he sold were Chapman, Chevalier (Paris), Harrison, Palmer & Longkings and Voigtlander cameras. In 1859, Anthony launched the sale of stereoscopic view cards, along with photographic albums, gallery furniture and backdrops.
In 1862, the firm’s name was changed to E. & H.T. Anthony to recognize his brother’s contribution.
In, 1870 the company began manufacturing cameras.
In 1883, E. & H.T. ANTHONY produced the first commercially manufactured hand instantaneous camera, called the Schmidt Patent Detective Camera, in America.
In 1902, E. & H.T. Anthony merged with the Scovill and Adams Company.
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Click here to view a few early E & HT Anthony advertisements, coutesy of J. Maresuk.
Click here to view the E. Anthony company camera product line and find detailed trade catalogue information and pictures about cameras.
The Anthony Company records originate from various members of the Anthony family. The records, which range in date from 1859 to 1917, pertain primarily to manufacturing papers and other photographic apparatus sold by the various companies that bore the Anthony name. The material dates from two periods: The era when brothers Edward and Henry T. Anthony ran the company until their deaths; and documents produced by Richard A. and Frederick A. Anthony, the latter of whom made numerous efforts to patent his ideas for the advancement of projection and motion picture technology.
Dates
Creation: 1859-1917, undated
Creator
Anthony, Edward, 1818?-1888 (Person)
Anthony, H. T. (Henry T.), 1813?-1884 (Person)
Anthony, Frederick A., 1854-1932 (Person)
Biographical Note
Edward Anthony earned his civil engineering degree from Columbia College in 1838 and opened his first photography studio in 1841 after learning about the daguerreotype process from telegraph inventor Samuel Morse, who was one of his professors. By 1842 his studio was making daguerreotypes of statesmen in Washington, D.C., and his pictures along the Canadian border were the first photographs used for government purposes. He was selling photography supplies and equipment by 1843 along with operating the studio. In 1851 he became one of the largest importers and manufacturers of photographic supplies in the United States. Two years later his brother Henry joined him as a partner and the company was renamed Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Company. The company was one of the first to introduce the collodion process in the 1850s.
Henry T. Anthony was born on September 18, 1814, and entered Columbia College at the age of fourteen. He graduated with honors in 1832 and started his career as a civil engineer. He also worked as a bank clerk. Henry became partners with his brother in 1853, his previous chemistry and physics studies making him qualified for the manufacturing department. Henry is credited as the first man to take the instantaneous photograph, now called a snapshot. Henry and Edward made numerous contributions to the processes and development of photography by providing quality products and photographic services including the creation of Anthony’s Photographic Bulletin.
Frederick A. Anthony, Edward's nephew, was named secretary of E. & H. T. Anthony & Company in 1889 after Edward Anthony’s passing. He patented a number of ideas related to the photographic industry including coating machinery for making nitrocellulose sheets and a folding roll film camera with a rectangular funnel on the interior. He also thought of creating a color screen with colors spectroscopically arranged in front of reels or lenses that would separate negatives, producing motion pictures in color. Frederick was involved in the technical side as well as the management side of the company.
After serving as Treasurer, Richard A. Anthony was named Vice President of E. & H. T. Anthony & Company after Edward's death in 1889. He was involved in the Binghamton factory’s film production and patented a process for applying a sensitized flexible, photographic film to one side of a nitrocellulose support with a colored gelatin or opaque layer. The process allowed the layer to be detached from the emulsion when prints were made.
Company Name Changes
- 1841
- E. Anthony
- 1862
- Edward and Henry T. Anthony
- 1864
- E. & H. T. Anthony & Company
- 1901
- Anthony and Scovill Company
- 1907
- Anthony and Scovill Company shortened to Ansco
- 1924
- Ansco Photo Products Inc.
- 1928
- Afga Ansco Corporation
- 1939
- General Aniline & Film Corporation
- 1943
- Ansco Division of General Aniline & Film Corporation
- 1967
- General Aniline & Film Corporation shortened to GAF
- 1978
- Ansco name sold to W. Haking Enterprises Ltd.
Historical Note
The photographic supply business founded by Edward Anthony in 1847 became the largest supplier of photographic materials in America in the 19th century. This included not only photographic papers, glass, and chemicals, but also cameras, enlargers, apparatus, studio props, and publications. The company was also the foremost publisher of stereo views in the United States with an inventory of over 11,300 titles. Henry T. Anthony joined his younger brother in the enterprise in 1862 and the firm became E. & H. T. Anthony & Company in 1863.
The company was significantly engaged in the business of publishing photographic images, mainly cartes-de-visite and stereo views. Mathew Brady engaged the company to publish his carte-de-visite portraits in the "Brady's Album Gallery" series. During the American Civil War, the company published images provided by George S. Cook in Charleston and by Brady in Washington, D.C., among others.
Brady also acquired financial backing and photographic supplies from the company, using his negatives as a form of collateral and initially, the company had an arrangement with him whereby they published his images and Brady would receive royalties. As his financial problems escalated, the number of Brady's negatives in the possession of the company grew and after 1873, Brady gave up all rights to the negatives. The company published many of the Brady stereo views in the 1870s, including the series "War Views" and "War for the Union."
In 1877, the firm was reorganized as a corporation, with Anthony as president, his brother as vice-president, and Colonel V. M. Wilcox as manager and secretary. After the death of both brothers, Wilcox became president, Richard A. Anthony (son of Edward Anthony) vice-president, and Frederick A. Anthony (Edward's nephew) secretary.
1843/1844, Published by John Doggett.
Magic Strop, 102 [William]—h—224 William.
1844. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1844/1845, Published by John Doggett.
Magic Strop, 102 William—h—224 William.
1845. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1845/1846, Published by John Doggett.
Magic Strop, 102 William—h—224 William.
1846. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1846/1847, Published by John Doggett.
Magic Strop, 102 William—h—224 William.
1847. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1847/1848, Published by John Doggett.
Magic Strop, 102 William—h—224 William.
1848. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1848/1849, Published by John Doggett.
Magic Strop, 102 William—no residence listed.
1849. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1849/1850, Published by John Doggett.
Magic Strop, 102 William—no residence listed.
1850. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1850/1851, Published by John Doggett.
Magic Strop, 102 William—h—E. 234 Ave. 3.
1851. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1851/1852, Published by Doggett & Rode.
Magic Strop, 102 William—h—152 E. 2 3d.
1852. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1852/1853, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Daguerreian Materials, East 25th between First Ave. & River and 102 William—h—East Twenty Third near Third Ave.
1853. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1853/1854, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Daguerreian Materials, East 25th between First Ave. and 102 William—h—East 23d.
1854. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1854/1855, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Daguerreian Materials, Razor Strops. 118 William & East 25th Ave.—h—152 East 23d.
1855. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1855/1856, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Manufacturer of Magic Razor Strops, Portemonnaies and Daguerreian Materials. 118 William & East 25th Ave.—h—152 East 23d.
1856. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1856/1857, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Manufacturer of Magic Razor Strops, Portemonnaies and Daguerreian Materials. 118 William & East 25th Ave.—h—152 East 23d.
1857. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1857/1858, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Razor Strops, 120 William.—h—73 Hicks, Brooklyn.
1858. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1858/1859, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Agent, 120 William.—h—2 West 25th.
1859. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1859/1860, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Agent, 120 William.—h—2 West 25th.
1860. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1860/1861, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Strops, 113 Walker.—h—113 West 23d.
1861. New York City Directory. (New York, New York.) 1861/1862, Published by John Fowler Trow.
Strops, 113 Walker.—h—113 West 23d.
George Dabbs
1849 102 Williams Street, New York, New York.
George Dabbs was recorded in an advertisement that ran from April 17 to May 28, 1849 in the New York Herald (New York, New York). Levi Chapman, No. 102 William street, New York, Manufacturer Of The Celebrated Magic Razor Strop, of four sides; also Pocket Books, Wallets, Spectacle and Bankers’ Cases, in every variety, on the most extensive scale.
Daguerreotype Cases $144; {Medium sizes, from $18 to $60 per gross. {Quarter sizes, from size from $83 2 to $[30] to $84 per gross. {Half sizes, from $82 to $144 per gross. Mats and Preservers of all kinds. Geo. Dabbs, Jas. Creamer, Agents.
George Dabbs is listed in Craig’s Daguerreian Registry in 1850 as working for Levi Chapman in New York City.
Berg, Paul K. 19th Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames. 2nd ed, Paul K. Berg, 2003
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