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* [http://www.vintagephoto.tv/adlake.shtml Adlake camera] at Scott's collection [http://www.vintagephoto.tv]
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* [http://www.boxcameras.com/adlakereg.html Adlake camera] at BoxCameras.com [http://www.boxcameras.com]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070821013353/http://www.boxcameras.com/adlakereg.html Adlake camera] on [http://web.archive.org/web/20081026104006/http://www.boxcameras.com/ BoxCameras.com] via [http://www.archive.org Internet Archive: The Wayback Machine]
* [http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium/pm.cgi?action=display&login=adlakead1 Adlake Regular Repeater], ad at Historic Camera [http://www.historiccamera.com]
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* [http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium/pm.cgi?action=display&login=adlakead1 Adlake Regular Repeater advertisement] at [http://www.historiccamera.com Historic Camera]
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Revision as of 20:31, 17 July 2013

Adams & Westlake Co. of Chicago, Illinois USA, was at one time America's most successful railroad lantern maker. It emerged from the merger of the companies of the two English immigrants, John McGregor Adams and William Westlake, in 1874. It made oil lamps, acetylene lamps, bicycles and cameras. It is still in the railroad equipment business.

At the end of the 19th century Adlake offered magazine cameras, i.e. box cameras with rear plate-storage compartment. The Adlake magazine cameras used alternate plate holders with hinged front door. The company held patents and patent licenses for these plate holders as well as for the related plate holder opening mechanism.

Cameras

With patented plate holders

  • Adlake Regular, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4
  • Adlake Regular, 4 x 5
  • Adlake Special, 4 x 5 (with aluminium plate holders)
  • Adlake Camera, 4 x 5

With rapid-action magazine

Links


Companies of Chicago (Illinois)
Adams & Westlake | Central Camera Co. | American Advertising and Research Co. | Bernard | Burke & James | Busch | Calumet | Candid | Chicago Aerial | Chicago Camera Co. | Chicago Ferrotype Company | Deardorff | De Vry | Drucker | Galter | Geiss | Herold | Imperial | Kemper | Lennor Engineering Co. | Metropolitan Industries | Monarch | Montgomery Ward | Pho-Tak | QRS Company | Rolls | Sans & Streiffe | Sears | Seymour | Spartus | The Camera Man | United States Camera Co. | Western Camera Manufacturing Co. | Yale | Zar | Zenith
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