Spartus

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Spartus was a camera maker originally based in New York and named Utility Manufacturing Company. In 1941 it was bought by Spartus and moved to Chicago. In 1951 its head of sales, Harold Rubin, bought the company and named it Herold Mfg. Co.. It made cameras of its own brand Spartus and under the brand or company names of dozens of companies. The cameras had a distinctive styling.

Cameras

Spartus

Utility

* Carlton Reflex

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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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