Item no. AP91a (ad postcard)

Type: cover

Country: USA

Date of use: 16 November 1885

Postcard (front of) advertising the company ADAMS & WESTLAKE Manufacturing Company of Chicago (Illinois, USA), manufacturer of railroad lanterns, oil lamps, acetylene lamps, bicycles etc. hardware, and several types of box cameras (from 1897) like Adlake Regular 4 x 5, Adlake Special 4 x 5, Adlake Repeater 4 x 5. The company emerged in 1857 as a merger of companies of two English immigrants John McGregor Adams and William Westlake.