Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:03 PM 2/20/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >Well, I have done a LOT of research into Zeiss-related number runs and >quite a bit on Leica's, and I will agree that a manufacturer doesn't always >now that precise records are going to be of grand interest a generation or >two later. (We now have access to the Carl Zeiss Jena archives: fifty >years of Bolshevik "workers' efficiency" means that we now have access to >two entire floors of the main building at Jena, with odd lots of documents >stashed where-ever, all out of order and, generally, not indexed at all. >It is a lifetime's work for a loving researcher.) > >And, when Leitz became Leica and moved from Wetzlar to Solms, almost all of >the old records were tossed, precisely as had happened with the Zeiss Ikon >records at Stuttgart in 1972 (to Heinz Kuppenbender's dire regret!). >Fortunately, the most, if not the all, of these were taken by employees, so >we are now, slowly, trying to locate these mini-caches of paperwork from >the '20's to the '70's. > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > Marc, Is this an organized research project? It sounds like a formidable project, even for someone with legions of grad students. John Eichorn