Catalogue Zeiss Ikon 1939
Toronto. While browsing the web recently for the Zeiss Historica Society, I came across the ISSUU web site and its cache of Zeiss/Zeiss Ikon catalogues and Zeiss Historica magazines.
I recognized ISSUU because the editor of PhotoEd once used it to let us view her publication around the time when COVID began restricting in person meetings.
Unfortunately, You cannot read anything on ISSUU without authorization by the account holder for given publications. Collectors of Zeiss Ikon cameras may find the site of potential interest. Unfortunately, I am not sure who the publisher is.
However, all issues of Zeiss Historica shown on ISSUU can be seen and read free on Mike Eckman’s site including an article on the history of the Zeiss Historica Society which closed in 2016. The write up is by Mike Eckman who notes that Larry Gubas was the last president of the ZHS.
At one point the ZHS was based here under one of our members (issue 8-1 summer of 1982), the late Rand Scheid (both as president and as editor). At the time, Zeiss Historica was printed by Schryer Graphics whose owners were both PHSC members and printers of our journal.
As you will see in the article on the history of ZHS, Larry Gubas down in Las Vegas wrote a (to me) seminal book “Zeiss and Photography”. The book, long out of print, weighs in at around seven pounds. If you can find a copy it gives a great amount of detail on Zeiss Ikon cameras and the significant role Zeiss played in photography.
