Burke & James, Inc., Chicago, IL
Watson Portrait Camera
Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c. 1940's
Construction: 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:
Sizes Offered: 2¼x3¼;
3¼x4¼; 4x5; 5x7
Notes: Watson
was the trademark name that B&J used after Ingento
was dropped. The Watson Portrait
Camera has a mahogany finish and comparatively shorted bellows than
the gray, painted
Watson
Commercial View. The form of both are similar to
what is called here the Seneca
Competitor
Variation 2 - the front is different
in that the lens board frame tilts, but the Competitor may also have
tilted by 1940.
References:
Better Pictures with Watson Portrait and View Cameras, Burke &
James (Chicago, IL), dated 1940, pp. 28-29
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