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'''Imperial''' was a main camera brand of the '''Herbert George Co. Chicago / Illinois''', a company founded by Herbert Weil and George Israel around 1945. ''Imperial'' box cameras were marketed under the brand name ''Herco'' as ''Herco Imperial''. ''Imperial'' lasted as brand name for these cameras. In 1961 company ownership changed and the whole company was renamed to '''Imperial Camera Corp.''' . It made solid bakelite and plastic cameras - one of the first very colorful series of cameras.
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'''Imperial''' was a main camera brand of the '''Herbert George Co. Chicago, Illinois''', a company founded by Herbert Weil and George Israel around 1945. ''Imperial'' box cameras were marketed under the brand name ''Herco'' as ''Herco Imperial''. ''Imperial'' lasted as brand name for these cameras. In 1961 company ownership changed and the whole company was renamed to '''Imperial Camera Corp.''' . It made solid bakelite and plastic cameras and often used using eye-catching colors to spur sales of what were otherwise very basic cameras.
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* [http://photo.even.free.fr/col_app.php?type=imperial&title=Imperial Imperial Camera Corp. page] at [http://photo.even.free.fr/ Collection G. Even's site]
 
* [http://photo.even.free.fr/col_app.php?type=imperial&title=Imperial Imperial Camera Corp. page] at [http://photo.even.free.fr/ Collection G. Even's site]
 
*[http://making-the-noise.blogspot.com/search/label/127%20Camera%20Adapted%20to%2035mm Shooting 35mm film with the Imperial Satellite]
 
*[http://making-the-noise.blogspot.com/search/label/127%20Camera%20Adapted%20to%2035mm Shooting 35mm film with the Imperial Satellite]
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Revision as of 21:40, 18 April 2011

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Herco Imperial
image by Shuggy™ (Image rights)

Imperial was a main camera brand of the Herbert George Co. Chicago, Illinois, a company founded by Herbert Weil and George Israel around 1945. Imperial box cameras were marketed under the brand name Herco as Herco Imperial. Imperial lasted as brand name for these cameras. In 1961 company ownership changed and the whole company was renamed to Imperial Camera Corp. . It made solid bakelite and plastic cameras and often used using eye-catching colors to spur sales of what were otherwise very basic cameras.

Camera Models

Herco Imperial Imperial 127 Reflex Imperial Satellite 127 Imperial Delta
Imperial Insta-Flash Imperial Instant Load 900 Imperial Mark 27 Imperial Mark XII Flash
Imperial Princess Imperial Reflex 620 Duo Lens Imperial Six-Twenty Magimatic X50
Imperial Cubex IV Imperial Insta-Flash Savoy Mark II
271862423_7ced69e838_m.jpg
Imperial Debonair
image by Steve Harwood (Image rights)
271896422_b0e04723b0_m.jpg
Mercury Satellite 127
image by Steve Harwood (Image rights)
271867134_a11d83988c_m.jpg
Imperial Savoy
image by Steve Harwood (Image rights)
1519490044_11f0d54cd0_m.jpg
Official Girl Scout
image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)

Gallery


271862430_21b5456bcc.jpg
The Savoy was a popular model
image by Steve Harwood (Image rights)
271862427_4877064278.jpg
Colorful cameras were a Herbert George specialty
image by Steve Harwood (Image rights)


5436815375_1a30eeec42_m.jpg
Imperial Mark XII Flash
image by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson
2223468307_46296b643b_m.jpg
Imperial Reflex
image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)
2470060177_7f19a0305e_m.jpg
Imperial Mark 27
image by John Kratz (Image rights)
2698976106_b046f721ac_m.jpg
Delta (4x4 on 127 film)
image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)


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
Chicago in depth: The Chicago Cluster‎, a bakelite trust?
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