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* '''[[USC Comet|Comet (folding)]]''' | * '''[[USC Comet|Comet (folding)]]''' | ||
Revision as of 01:41, 18 November 2014
The United States Camera Corporation was based in 17 North Loomis Street, Chicago 7, Illinois (U.S.A.) . It was apparently an alternate name of the Pho-Tak Corporation, at the same address.
Cameras
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| Trailblazer image by Marc Henderson (Image rights) |
- Comet (folding)
- Comet 127
- Simplex 41
- Simplex 43
- Simplex 45
- Simplex Snapper 126
- Trailblazer (also exists as the Pho-Tak Trailblazer 120)
- USC Reflex II
- USC Reflex II X
- USC Reflex III
- USC Auto Forty
- Auto Fifty
- Vagabond 120 (similar to Pho-Tak Traveler 120)
- Rollex 20 (similar to Pho-Tak Foldex 20)
- USC 20
- USC 35 (made in Germany)
- USC Automatic Electric Eye = USC Automatic Reflex?
- USC Tri-Matic Electric Eye 127
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| USC 20, successor to Rollex 20 image by Steve Harwood (Image rights) |
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| Vagabond 120 image by Eduardo Urdangaray (Image rights) |
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| USC Reflex III image by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson (Image rights) |
Links
- manual of Reflex II/Reflex II "X" at Michael Butkus Jr.'s [1]
- USC 35 at Virtual Cameramuseum [2]
- USC Automatic at merrillphoto [3]
- Cameras at www.collection-appareils.fr
| 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? |
