The Nikon Camera in America, 1946-1953

Michael Wescott Loder was the campus librarian at Ciletti Memorial Library, Schuylkill Campus, Pennsylvania State University for twenty-five years. He is retired and lives in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents



Acknowledgments     

Foreword by Robert J. Rotoloni     

Preface     

Introduction: A Meeting in San Francisco     




1. Background: Nippon Kogaku’s History to September 1945     

2. The Genesis of the Nikon: A Company in Search of a Product     

3. Creating an Overseas Market     

4. The “Discovery” of the Nikkor (and What Immediately Followed)     

5. 1951 to 1953: OFITRA’s Success and Ultimate Failure     



Epilogue—From the Nikon S to the Nikon F and Beyond     

Appendix I. Transcription and Analysis of Nikon and Nikkor Production, August 1948–April 1951     

Appendix II. The Fate of Nippon Kogaku’s Factories     

Appendix III. The Contractual Agreement Between Nippon Kogaku and the Overseas Finance and Trading Company, April 26, 1950     

Appendix IV. Changes to the First Model Nikons, 1947–1954     

Chapter Notes     

Bibliography     

Index