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- OBJECT TYPE
- ROLLFILM/BELLOWS/FOLDING
- DATE
- 1926–1933
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0447.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd.
- MODEL
- VEST POCKET KODAK/B
- LOCATION
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 2215
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Metal with leather covering; glass lens
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 12.5 cm
- Width
- 7.0 cm
- Height
- 2.5 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
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Probably used in the 1920s AND 1930s
- 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 film. - Technical
-
This is a folding-bed, fixed focus camera that uses 127 roll film. It has a meniscus lens, vest pocket rotary shutter and produces a picture size, 1 5/8 x 2 1/8 inches (Coe, 171). The entire front of the camera removes from the roll holder section for film loading, and has a folding bed which serves as a door. Earlier models loaded from the side. It also has an autographic feature with attached metal stylus (KE – Notes). The camera was produced with an autographic feature until about 1930 (KcKeown, 2001: 377). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Printed around lens: '"KODAK" MADE IN CANADA BY CANADIAN KODAK CO., LIMITED, TORONTO, ONT./ VEST POCKET KODAK/ MODEL B/ 2215/ T I/ K'/ Molded in black: 'USE "KODAK" FILM/ NO/ A127'
- Missing
- Lens board bent back
- Finish
- Black textured finish
- Decoration
- Covering has molded decorative bars.
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Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd., Camera, circa 1926–1933, Artifact no. 1997.0447, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/1997.0447.001/
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