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The Montgomery Ward department stores chain is reputed to be the first mail order business. The company was founded in Chicago in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward[1]. They sold cameras under the Wards brand, and some by other names.

Cameras[]

  • Adams 351
  • Adams 352
  • Baby Thornward #2
  • Long Focus Thornward
  • Majestic
  • Montgomery Model B
  • MW
  • Premium
  • Thornward Dandy

Wards[]

35mm Rangefinder[]

35mm Viewfinder[]

  • Ward 35
  • Wards 35-EE
  • Wards I-A (rebadged Adox Polo 1S)
  • Wards II-A
  • Wards III-A (rebadged Adox Polomatic 3S)
  • Wards cp 301
  • Wards ep 504 Electric
  • Wards EYE (rebadged Konica EYE) half frame
  • Wards x100
  • Wards xp400
  • Wards xp 500a
  • Wards xp 501 (rebadged Konica EE-Matic Deluxe)

SLR[]

  • Wards SLR 700 (rebadged Konica FP)

TLR[]

  • Wardflex (metal & plastic versions)
  • Wardflex II (rebadged Taiyōdō TLR )

127 Cameras[]

  • Wards 25

Box[]

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Companies of Chicago (Illinois)
Adams & Westlake | American Advertising and Research Co. | Bernard | Burke & James | Busch | Calumet | Candid | Chicago Camera Co. | Chicago Ferrotype Co. | Deardorff | De Vry | Geiss | Herold | Imperial | Kemper | Metropolitan Industries | Montgomery Ward | Pho-Tak | Rolls | Sans & Streiffe | Sears | Seymour | Spartus | The Camera Man | United States Camera Co. | Western Camera Manufacturing Co. | Yale | Zar | Zenith
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