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Camera lucida
 
This artist's aid, known as a camera lucida  is signed Kolesch & Co. Kolesch & Co. traced their history back to Edmund March Blunt, who opened a chart and instrument store in New York in 1811. Blunt's sons, Edmund and George William, opened a similar store in 1824, and began trading as E. & G. W. Blunt. In the early 1850s the Blunts began offering surveying instruments of their own manufacture. The firm became Blunt & Nichols in 1866, and Blunt & Co. in 1868. In the 1870s the business passed to German immigrants: Eckel & Imhoff, and then F. Eckel. Heinrich Adolph Kolesch (1855-1903) bought the firm in 1885. 
       
 
       
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