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- OBJECT TYPE
- 35mm
- DATE
- 1955–1958
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1971.0380.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd.
- MODEL
- Pony 135/C
- LOCATION
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 1095609
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Metal, synthetic, and glass.
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
- 7.6 cm
- Height
- 7.6 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
-
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
-
The first Pony camera made for 35 mm film, it had a Kodak Anaston lens 44mm f:3.5 and a Kodak flash 300 shutter. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Markings on camera face: 'PONY 135 Cam??? [the rest is illegible, but it was likely written 'Camera']' ; Mfr. Info. found on back plate: 'KODAK PONY 135 CAMERA/ MADE IN CANADA BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO. LIMITED/ T.M. REG. CAN. PAT. OFF./ CANADIAN PATENTS PENDING'
- Missing
- None
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd., Camera, between 1955–1958, Artifact no. 1971.0380, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1971.0380.001/
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