American art photography printer and slide manufacturer
Alternative Names
Taurgo Inc.
Location
Notes
American art photography printer and slide manufacturer based in New York, founded in 1949. Originally focused on producing relatively inexpensive 4"x5" photo prints based on photographic negatives loaned from a variety of colleges and museums. Eventually branched out to producing lantern slides from aforementioned negatives.
154 East 82nd St - ca. 1970
References
"The Slide Negative Pool of Taurgo, Inc., and its Importance to College Education," College Art Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Autumn, 1951), pp. 35-37 (3 pages)
Sources of Slides: The History of Art. Distributed by The Slide Library. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. January, 1970.
