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Palko

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The Palko (sometimes given as Pal Ko, as illustrated here) is an unusual camera for postcard-size (3¼x5½ inch) images (or images one-third or two-thirds that size) on 122 roll film, made in Chicago from about 1920 until 1935. The camera's maker was at first the Cruver-Peters Company, which later became Palko, inc. as in the illustration here. The camera was patented in the USA by William A. Peters, first in his own name, and later as assignor to the International Patent Licensing Corporation of

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