Burke & James

Burke & James 8x10 commercial view camera with grey paint removed showing maple wood. image by J. Golden (Image rights)

Burke & James Inc. Chicago was a camera manufacturer and importer of cameras and lenses. The company was established in 1897 by founders Henry Burke and David James. Products were sold via store front as well as mail order. 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

Burke & James 4x5 Speed Press image by PhotoShop Guru (Image rights)

Orbit 5x7 monorail camera image by Christopher Ness (Image rights)

Burke & James Grover Large Format 4x5 image by Allen Armstrong (Image rights)

Products

Cameras

Grover 4x5 front image by Allen Armstrong (Image rights)

• Burke & James Commercial View Camera 4x5
• Burke & James Commercial View Camera 8x10
• Burke & James Commercial View Camera 8x20
• Burke & James Commercial View Camera 11x14
• Burke & James Grover 4x5
• Burke & James Grover 5x7
• 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 - rotating back
• Burke & James Panoram 120 - four 7 × 2 ¼" on 120 roll film
• Burke & James Panoram 120 Mark II - with focus mount
• Burke & James Panoram 120 Mark III - f/6.8 Goerz Dangor lens
• Burke & James Rembrandt - 5x7 Portrait Camera
• Burke & James Rexo series - rollfilm cameras
• Burke & James Rexoette - rollfilm box cameras
• Burke & James Saturn 75
• Burke & James 4x5 Speed Press
• Burke & James Watson 4x5 Press camera
• Burke & James Watson Holmes - fingerprint camera, 2 ¼ × 3 ¼"

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