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Guardia Julie.
b ? - died June 25 1906
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Newman & Guardia Ltd from July 1896
Newman & Guardia 1891 - 1896
Company Address:
60 Berners Street. London 1949 - c.1959 Later at Harlow
19 - 23 Wells St. London 1938 - 1949
63 Newman Street. London. W1 1929 - 1938
17 & 18 Rathbone Place. Oxford St. London. W 1909 - 1929 Or late 1908. W1 postal district from 1917
90 & 92 Shaftesbury Avenue. London. W 1897 - 1909
92 Shaftesbury Avenue. London. W 1893 - 1897
71 Farringdon Road. London. W 1891 - 1893
106-110 Kentish Town Road. London. NW Factory
Founded by J. Guardia (d. 1906) and Arthur Samuel Newman.
Prior to Newman & Guardia, Arthur Newman was part of Newman & Simpson working out of 71 Farringdon Rd (c.1890 - 1891) and 11 Albermarle St. Clerkenwell (c.1888 - c.1890). S.J. Levi & Co. were also at the 71 Farringdon address around 1890.
Newman left the company in 1908 and was later in partnership with J.A. Sinclair. The Farringdon St. address is on the west side between Charles St. and Clerkenwell, near Cross St. References:
Photographic News 1896.; BJA 1907, p. 627
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Patents
8721 1912 Describes a folding hand camera. Used in the Sibyl range of cameras. Newman & Guardia; Walters, E.C.; Mason, Percy George Baby Sibyl
8722 1912 Sector shutter. Used on the Sibyl camera. Newman & Guardia; Walters, E.C.; Mason, Percy George Baby Sibyl
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Arthur Newman was the designer, and with Julie Guardia, a naturalised Spaniard and keen photographer, in 1891 he formed the partnership of Newman and Guardia. Guardia, having died in 1906, in 1910 Newman left the company, seemingly “by mutual agreement”. During that year he started a manufacturing division for equipment to be retailed by James A. Sinclair, the best known being Newman & Sinclair’s UNA
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Arthur Samuel Newman (1861-1943) was a British camera manufacturer; his first exposure to photographic equipment was while working in a firm of electricians who began to manufacture hand cameras. Eventually he joined with a photographer, Julio Guardia to form the camera-manufacturing company Newman & Guardia.
Guardia handled the marketing of the cameras which Newman designed.
After seeing a Lumière show, he began to design movie projectors; and from there film perforators and printing machines, as well as offering to provide a developing and printing service. His camera designs gained a reputation for quality and were used by many important film-makers. As a testimony to the fine quality of the cameras, this catalog has a section of photographs by a number of accomplished photographers, including Vero C. Driffield, Andrew Pringle, Arnold Pike (Arctic photos) and Julio Guardia.
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J. GUARDIA
Mr. Guardia was a Spaniard by birth, but had been a naturalized Englishman for more than 25 years. His photographic career at it s commencement, twenty five years ago, was marked by his thorough advocacy of the hand camera as capable of everything which might be desired in photography, and infinitely the superior of the stand camera, from the tourist’s standpoint.
His own ideas at that time in camera construction brought him into relations with Mr. A. s. Newman, also a photographer and mechanician of the highest order, and one, too, able to adapt his grasp of mechanical constructions to the many refinements which go to make the perfect camera.
The two men associated themselves in partnership about seventeen years ago, and developed the well-known business bearing their names.
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APARATUS-The Kodak Company, with the cheap and clever “Panoram” Kodak, brought out one of the most attractive novelties of the year, during the whole of which this enterprising house was constantly stimulating public interest in photography. Messrs. Beck, Messrs. Adams, Messrs, Watson, Messrs, Newman & Guardia, and other firms, also brought out new cameras, which are described in detail in the section of the ALMANAC, headed “Recent Novelties in Apparatus.”
There has been a steady influx of several kinds of American-made hand cameras, and several of the cheaper varieties also own their sources of origin to France and Italy.
On the whole it cannot be said that British photographic apparatus makers hold their own against their foreign competitors in the production of cheap cameras. &C., although for strength of construction, allied with beauty of finish and practical utility, the better classes of English apparatus are unexcelled.
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