General Information

Serial #

352171

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal, synthetic, glass, and leather.

Dimensions

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

Length

12.7 cm

Width

8.9 cm

Height

15.2 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

Made in 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 roll film camera that produced 2½ X 3¼ inch images on 620 film using a kodet f12.5 lens and a dak shutter (Coe, 143).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Markings on box reads: 'KODAK/ VIGILANT/ JUNIOR/ SIX-20/ [Canadian Kodak Co. logo]'; 'MADE IN TORONTO, CANADA, BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO., LIMITED/ TRADE MARKS REGISTERED'; 'FEATURES OF THE/ KODAK VIGILANT JUNIOR SIX-20/ KODET LENS AND DAK SHUTTER/ SHUTTER WITH SNAPSHOT AND "BULB" ACTIONS/ SINGLE RELEASE FOR OPENING AND CLOSING/ EYE-LEVEL AND WAIST-LEVEL FINDERS/ EIGHT PICTURES (SIZE 2 ¼ X 3 ¼ INCHES) ON/ KODAK 620 FILM' Mfr. Plate on camera reads: 'KODAK VIGILANT JUNIOR SIX-20/ MADE IN CANADA BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO., LIMITED/ TORONTO ONT'.

Missing

N/A

Finish

Unknown

Decoration

N/A