General Aniline & Film Corporation, New York, USA

after the Wold War II the german American IG became GAF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_IG

http://www.gaf.com/General/GAFintro_MAIN.asp

Ansco was founded in 1842 as the E and HT Anthony & Co in Binghamton, New York. In 1901 it became the Anthony & Scoville Co. In 1925 six companies were merged into Inter-nationale Gesellschaft Farbenindustrie AG or IG Farben, in short: Badische Anilin, Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst, Weiler-ter-Meer and Griesheim-Elektron. In 1928 Ansco merged with the german photo company Agfa into a corporation named Agfa-Ansco. In 1928, american holdings of IG Farben (namely, the american branches of Bayer Co, General Aniline Works, Agfa-Ansco and Winthrop Chemical Co), were organized into a Swiss holding company, which was christened Inter-nationale Gesellschaft fur Chemische Unternehmungen AG or IG Chemie, in short. The controlling interest of this entity rested with IG Farben in Germany. In the following year, in 1929 these american firms merged to become American IG Chemical Corporation, or American IG, in short.

The Agfa-Ansco interests in the Usa and Binghamton factory was taken over by the US government in 1941 due to its ties with Germany. The company was sold as enemy assets to American interests. It continued to business after Second World War as Ansco. In 1967 the company was renamed General Aniline & Film (GAF), and a variety of cameras were sold under this name. The last Ansco cameras were produced in the early 1990s.

 GAF today still exists, mainly as a manufacturer of asphalt and building materials.