[23287] (Americana - New York - Business History - Photography). 1945 - 1946 C.P. Goerz American Optical Company New York Equipment Brochure and Price List for Lenses for Professional and Amateur Photography Photo-Engraving Photo-Lithography Movie Making Accessories. 317 East 34th Street, New York: C.P. Goerz American Optical Company, 1945. A 6-page brochure; black and white illustrations of a few of the Goerz lens products; the prefatory letter notes "...As this war comes to a close and the transition period to peace begins, there can be no doubt that business conditions will be abnormal...procurement of some of the materials going into our production is at this moment still controlled by our government..."; the company also notes copyright infringement problems and fakery, warns of "...unscrupulous persons have faked unknown lenses by remounting and engraving them with our name and trademarks..."; products shown include the Kino-Hypar anastigmat, Dagor anastigmat, super-Dagor, Dogmar anastigmat, the Apochromat Artar, reversing prisms; also advertises new lenses to come after the war, as well as the making of photographic shutters; (with) a 1946 4-page consumer price list "...adjusted in accord with OPA-Order No. 10..."; for various equipment, lenses, prisms, shutters, accessories, filters; approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; with side - holes for insertion in a binder, stapled; some soiling and darkening to the paper, old fold lines; in good condition; interesting post WWII optical manufacturing, return-to-peacetime business ephemera.