General Information

Serial #

495179

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal body covered with leather/ fabric bellows/ glass lens/ metal lens board

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

20.7 cm

Width

9.8 cm

Height

4.4 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Photography

Category

Still cameras

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Kodak

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Toronto

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Kodak Canada was founded by Eastman Kodak in 1899 in a Toronto shop where employees cut sheet film and fitted lenses on cameras to support the growing potential for a photographic market in Canada. As Canadian interest in photography grew, the company expanded across the country throughout the 20th century to produce in all aspects of photography including still and movie cameras, film, x-ray film, photocopy paper, and photographic chemicals under many popular names including Brownie, Kodacolor, Carousel, and Supermatic.

Function

To record still images on photographic rollfilm.

Technical

Autographic feature introduced by Kodak in late 1914, and was available on several lines of cameras (McKeown, p 120). A folding rollfilm camera that produced 2½ X 4¼ inch images on 116 film using a meniscus achromatic fixed focus lens (Coe, 77). The Autographic Kodak Junior 1A appears with an aperture size of f/4 - f/128 using a ball bearing shutter. The Autographic Kodak Junior 1A "permitted a message to be written on the film between frames. The spool was wound with a layer of carbon paper between the film and the thin red backing paper. After taking a photograph, the user would open up the small door on the back of the camera and using the provided stylus inscribed a brief note" (Hoyt, http://www.clickondavid.com/index-62.html).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

'KODAK' EMBOSSED ON HANDLE & ON LENS BOARD SUPPORT STRUT/ METAL PLATE WITH MFR'S NAME & ADDRESS ONLENS BASEBOARD/ LENS NAME ENGRAVED AROUND LENS MOUNT/ METAL PLATE WITH MODEL NAME AT BOTTOM OF LENS BOARD

Missing

Red film window

Finish

Black pebbled leather cover/ black bellows/ black enamelled metal with nickel-plated shiny parts throughout

Decoration

N/A