General Information

Serial #

118755

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Fabric bellows/ metal body covered with fabric/ metal lens board/ glass lens

Dimensions

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

Length

16.5 cm

Width

9.2 cm

Height

4.2 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

The Vigilant Junior Six-20 is a less expensive version of the Vigilant Six-20 (Coe, 143). 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 self-erecting folding rollfilm camera that produced 2¼ X 3¼ inch images on 620 film using a Kodet f12.5 lens and a Dak shutter (Coe, 143).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

METAL PLATE WITH MODEL AND MFR ATTACHED TO FRONT EDGE OF BED/ LENS & SHUTTER NAME EMBOSSED ON LENS BOARD

Missing

N/A

Finish

Black pebbled fabric on exterior and bellows/ black painted metal on interior and lens board

Decoration

N/A