Burke & James

Burke & James 8x10 view camera image by J. Golden (Image rights)

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

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

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.

image by Allen Armstrong (Image rights)

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

Other products

• No. 0 Folding Ingento
• The "Ideal" Flash Gun
• Ingento Sure Shot flashlamp
• Burke & James "Ingento" Studio Camera
• Watson Burke & James 4x5 Press Camera
• Ingento 5x7 Compact Camera
• Rexo accessories and rollfilm cameras
• Rexoette rollfilm box cameras

Links

• Graflex copies made by Burke and James at Jo Lommen's [1]
• partial company history by former vice president of the company at Jo Lommen's [2]
• Camera at Sylvain Halgand's [3]
• Flickr group Burke & James
• Ingento 5x7 Compact Camera at Field Cameras of the United States [4]