Burke & James, Inc., Chicago, IL

 

Ingento View Camera (No Number)/Ingento No. 1

 

 

 Burke & James Catalog, 1906-7, p.27

Date Introduced: - ; Years Manufactured: c. 1906
Construction: front and back focus via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails); double swing; reversing by removable back; three-piece lens board
Materials: mahogany body, cherry bed, brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 5x7, 6 ½x8 ½, 8x10, 11x14, 14x17, 17x20
Notes: Ingento was the trademark name that B&J used for almost every item of equipment they made.  It appears to be  The Seneca View, except that the front standard brass glides do not wrap around the front as they do on the Seneca product.  Unfortunately, using the same image, B&J referred to it as the Ingento (no number) in their 1906-7 catalog, then as Ingento No. 1 in their 1908-9 catalog, and then also referred to the Seneca, Improved also as Ingento No. 1 in later catalogs.  Obviously, to B&J, the No. 1 camera focused front and back regardless of details.

References:  
Catalogue No. 7 of Cameras, Photographic Apparatus & Supplies, Burke & James (Chicago, IL), dated 1904, p. 16
Catalogue No. 10, Photographic Apparatus & Supplies, Burke & James (Chicago, IL), dated 1906-1907, p. 27
Photo and Art Supplies, American School of Art & Photography, Scranton, PA, dated 1907, pp. 33-35 (as the New Improved Schriver View)
Catalogue No. 11, Photographic Apparatus & Supplies, Burke & James (Chicago, IL), dated 1908-1909, p. 24 (As Ingento No. 1)

 

 

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