{"id":14897,"date":"2019-06-20T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14897"},"modified":"2019-06-19T21:18:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T01:18:16","slug":"a-kludge-of-clones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-kludge-of-clones\/","title":{"rendered":"a kludge of clones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14898\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/clones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14898\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14898\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/clones-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bakelite 35mm cameras made by Spartus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the late 1930s, a Chicago man embarked on a program to create inexpensive cameras and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeinchicagomuseum.com\/single-post\/spartus\">Spartus Camera Corporation<\/a> was born. One of the many cameras to emerge was a bakelite wonder that sold under a variety of names.<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to visit our Fairs, Trunk Sales, or Auctions, you are sure to come across a camera made by Spartus Corp. in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my friend George Dunbar for the idea and to the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeinchicagomuseum.com\"><em>Made in \u00a0Chicago Museum<\/em><\/a>&#8221; for the gory details of the creator of Spartus and many other inexpensive articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the late 1930s, a Chicago man embarked on a program to create inexpensive cameras and the Spartus Camera Corporation was born. One of the many cameras to emerge was a bakelite wonder that sold under a variety of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-kludge-of-clones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[398,1971,14,129],"class_list":["post-14897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-camera","tag-chicago","tag-film","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14901,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897\/revisions\/14901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}