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Item no. P1612 (cover)
Type: cover
Country: France
Date of use: 26 August 1921
Business stationery (cover) used by the company Les Établissements POULENC FRÈRES Fabrique de Produits Chimiques in Paris (France). The company was founded in 1900 as family pharmaceutical business Poulenc Freres and, in 1928, merged with Société Chimique des Usines du Rhône [Chemical Society of Rhône Factories].
The earlier base for the company was a workshop and store, that was bought and modernized by Pierre Wittmann (1798-1880) in 1845. In 1852, apart other compounds, he, with his partner Etienne Poulenc, started manufacturing chemicals for wet-plate photographic collodion processes - collodion, silver halides, sodium hyposulphite.
There were also manufactured some wooden cameras e.g. Stereo and Panorama Camera (1880) for 6,5 x 9 cm. plates, with Prazmowski lens, or Detective Camera (ca.1900) for 9 x 12 cm. plates.
The brothers [“Freres”] who later inherited the company were three Etienne’s nephews – Gaston, Emile and Camille.
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