The Houghton company (and its ancestors and descendants) sold plenty of photography gear in Britain between the 1840s and 1961, though the destruction of company headquarters by German bombers in 1940 ...
The Ansco Memo of the late 1920s is a fascinating piece of American camera history. It was designed to shoot cheap 35mm movie film using proprietary cartridges that held 50 exposures (this at a time ...