Ansco
of 143-149 Great Portland Street, London, W1
1842 The company was founded as E. and H. T. Anthony and Co.
1901 It became the Anthony and Scoville Co.
1928 Ansco merged with the German photo company Agfa into a corporation named Agfa-Ansco. Later that year that firm, and other German owned chemical firms, were merged into a German controlled (by I. G. Farben) Swiss based corporation named Inter-nationale Gesellschaft fur Chemische Unternehmungen AG or IG Chemie, in short.
1929 the name was changed to American IG Chemical Corporation or American IG, later renamed General Aniline and Film and continued to produce cameras under the Agfa-Ansco name.
1941 The Agfa-Ansco interests in the US and Binghamton factory was taken over by the US government due to its ties with Germany. The company was sold as enemy assets to American interests.
Post-WWII It continued to do business as Ansco after the war.
1967 The company was renamed General Aniline and Film (GAF), and a variety of cameras as well as films were sold under this name.
The last Ansco cameras were produced in the early 1990s.
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Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia