General Information

Serial #

7588

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal body covered with leather/ cloth bellows covered with leather/ glass lens/ brass lens board/ wooden sliding boards on lens baseboards

Dimensions

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

Length

24.5 cm

Width

12.0 cm

Height

4.5 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

Folding Pocket cameras led the way to a whole new generation of popular cameras introducing a smaller image size and a compact aluminum body. The name was changed several times although the camera was on the scene to record the turning of a century, the World War, and the Great Depression (McKeown, 29). 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 film.

Technical

A folding roll film camera that produced 3¼ X 4¼ inch images on 118 film using a rapid rectilinear lens and a automatic shutter (Coe, 103).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

BLACK ENAMELLED BRASS PLATE WITH EMBOSSED BRASS LETTERS WITH MFR'S NAME & ADDRESS ON FRONT OF LENS BASEBOARD/ 'KODAK' EMBOSSED ON HANDLE, ENGRAVED ON VIEWFINDER COVER & ENGRAVED ON BRASS SUPPORT STRUT

Missing

N/A

Finish

Black pebbled leather on case/ black bellows

Decoration

N/A