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I have been wanting one of these for quite some time, because it combines two things I love: old cameras...

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Uploaded on Jan 30, 2012

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The Chicago Cluster is a name that has been applied to the mind-boggling variety of cameras produced by...

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Uploaded on Jan 30, 2012

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The Baby-Box, as its name suggests, is a diminutive metal box camera for 127 film, made in Dresden, Germany...

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Uploaded on Sep 19, 2011

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Whitehouse Products made several cameras with the Beacon name. This is a later version of the second model,...

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Uploaded on Sep 16, 2011

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The Golden Shield Corporation began in 1959 and was in the business of designing, procuring, and...

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Uploaded on Sep 12, 2011

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Shot from inside Liberty's crown, 30 years ago.

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Uploaded on Sep 11, 2011  |  Map

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Uploaded for ParrotCam. Shown in "home" position. Claws engage film sprocket holes. You slide...

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Uploaded on Aug 27, 2011

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Uploaded for Camera-wiki.org Body identical to The President & Champion from "The Camera...

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Uploaded on Aug 27, 2011

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As this picture shows, it's clear that the Sunbeam Six Twenty is actually a Spartus camera, since you can...

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Uploaded on Aug 17, 2011

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The Craftsman Camera Home Construction Kit was introduced in 1950, after Ansco tested the concept by...

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Uploaded on Aug 2, 2011

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This is my father, on a day trip to Valley Forge, probably in the early 1950s. This shot is especially...

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Uploaded on Jun 24, 2011  |  Map

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The Capitol is a simple plastic "candid minicam", made circa the 1930s by Metropolitan Industries...

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Uploaded on Jun 24, 2011

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Simple pseudo-TLR, similar to the Falcon-Flex. This camera was made by Monarch, but they also spelled it...

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Uploaded on Apr 5, 2011

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This is a multi-function device, made in 1983 by Hendren Enterprises of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. McKeown's...

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Uploaded on Mar 23, 2011

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The Bee Bee is an export version of the Certotrop, sold in the U.S. by Burleigh Brooks (hence the name Bee...

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Uploaded on Nov 29, 2010

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The Brenda Starr camera is nearly identical to the Dick Tracy camera. Both were made by Seymore Products,...

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Uploaded on Nov 24, 2010

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If the Brenda Starr camera is uncommon, the box it came in is downright rare. Gotta love those graphics!

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Uploaded on Nov 24, 2010

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Having had no luck with my few resources, a precise identification of this camera eludes me. I do know it...

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Uploaded on Nov 8, 2010

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