[Rarebooks] FS: Kodak vs. Scovill original depositions 1902, 1903

[Robinson Street Books]

Just in: 19th Century Photography, Business, Law, Patent
Law:
 
Eastman Kodak Company vs. The Anthony & Scovill Company
dated 1902, 1903
 
Depositions of: Thomas H. Blair, Frederick H. Kelley,
Parker B. Cady etc..  approx 500 leaves, carbons
mostly, with few fair copies of letters, as exhibits, many
corrections, additions in pencil & pen. 
 
Signed and notorized, in three places, with notarial seal
embossed in paper.  The original signatures include
Thomas H. Blair, Frederick H. Kelley and Parker B.
Cady.  Long legal sheets laid into two cloth binders,
pages unbound. Early pages have some chipping at bottom,
holes where cord had held them together at top.  
 
Additional 92 pages of period reproductions and patent
descriptions of Eastman Kodak and other Camera related
patents.  Original patent records are reproduced by
"photo lithography". 
 
12 pages of reproduced drawings as exhibits marked
"Defendent's exhibit Smith memorandum". 

Over 500 leaves, mostly carbons, marked "Extra copy Parker
B. Cady" in an unknown hand. 
 
Thomas H. Blair was an early photographer, inventor, and
entrepreneur who competed with Kodak, and the company he
developed became a division of Kodak. 
 
Lawyers: J.J. Kennedy represented Kodak.  Edward C.
Davidson represented Anthony & Scovill.

The first 281 leaves include through direct and cross
examination a history of the development of: "Daylight
Loading Cartridge", "Kameret", "Bullseye", "Hawkeye Camera",
"Petite Cameras".  Business dealings and business
interaction between "Blair Camera Company", "Eastman Kodak
Company", and other early Camera companies through the
testimony of Thomas H. Blair. Dates of development,
manufacture, sales. 

Parker B. Cady was an inventor with patents for "Flexible
Photographic film".  
 
Frederick H. Kelley was an inventor who received a patent
for "integrating f-stop into photographic shutters".  
 
An extremely interesting look into the development of
amateur photography in the later part of the 19th Century.
Includes information about the manufacture of late 19th
Century cameras.  Many pages have signature of
"George", in margins, in an unknown hand. Other than the
last exhibit, a fair copy of an agreement, signed in type by
George Eastman authorizing travel expenses, there's no
indication that George Eastman was present at any of the
sessions of the depositions, in NYC or Boston.
 
            $2500
 
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