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| − | | | + | '''Burke & James''' Inc. Chicago was a camera manufacturer and importer of cameras and lenses. It designed and manufactured [[view camera]]s, fingerprint cameras, portrait cameras, graphic arts equipment, lenses, darkroom sinks and other things. Many of its own products seem to have got one of the additional brand names [[Rexo]], '''Watson''' and '''Ingento'''. |
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Revision as of 01:38, 23 March 2012
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Burke & James Inc. Chicago was a camera manufacturer and importer of cameras and lenses. It designed and manufactured view cameras, fingerprint cameras, portrait cameras, graphic arts equipment, lenses, darkroom sinks and other things. Many of its own products seem to have got one of the additional brand names Rexo, Watson and Ingento.
Gallery
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Products
Cameras
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| Grover 4x5 front image by Allen Armstrong (Image rights) |
- Burke & James Grover 4x5
- Burke & James Grover 8x10
- Burke & James "Ingento" Studio Camera
- Burke & James Ingento 5x7 Compact Camera
- Burke & James No. 0 Folding Ingento
- Burke & James Orbit 4x5
- Burke & James Orbit 5x7
- Burke & James Rexo series - rollfilm cameras
- Burke & James Rexoette - rollfilm box cameras
- Burke & James Watson 4x5 Press Camera
Enlargers
- Solar 120
- Solar 45C
- Solar 45DR
- Solar 57
- Solar 57HC
- Solar Autofocus
- Solar Auto 66
- Solarmatic 160
Other products
- Burke & James Ingento Sure Shot flashlamp
- Burke & James The "Ideal" Flash Gun
- Burke & James Rexo accessories
Links
- Graflex copies made by Burke and James at Jo Lommen's
- partial company history by former vice president of the company at Jo Lommen's
- Flickr group Burke & James
- Ingento 5x7 Compact Camera at Wooden Field Cameras of the United States
- Camera at Sylvain Halgand's
| 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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