General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal body. Fabric body covering. Glass lens. Leather carrying strap.

Dimensions

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

Length

13.0 cm

Width

8.5 cm

Height

13.0 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

Representative of the use of fashionable colours with modernistic geometric patterns to attract consumers. By the year 1934 the box camera had reverted to its more traditional sober colour (Coe, 94). 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 roll film.

Technical

A box rollfilm camera that produced 2½ x 4¼ inch images on 116 film. The Kodak doublet lens allowed a shorter body than usual Brownie Boxes (Coe, 34).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

On camera face: 'BEAU/ BROWNIE/ DOUBLET/ LENS'; On film wind: 'USE KODAK FILM 116'; Inside camera: 'NO. 2A BEAU BROWNIE/ MADE IN CANADA/ BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO./ LIMITED/ TORONTO, ONT./ PRINTED IN U.S.A./ 1,169,882/ 1,176,329/ 1,314,523/ 1,314,523/ 1,494,719/ 1,620,304/ PATENTS PENDING/ PRINTED IN U.S.A. NO.41,109', and 'PROPERTY OF/ WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY/ 12247' on a sticker.

Missing

N/A

Finish

The body is covered in a green simulated reptile skin fabric. The lens board is finished in green and blue-green enamel, with silver straps separating the colours.

Decoration

N/A