General Information

Serial #

54671

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Cardboard, metal, leather, 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

10.2 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

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. The Brownie camera was designed by Frank Brownell in 1898 as an inexpensive yet reliable camera. The name was adopted from popular characters created by Canadian born illustrator and author Palmer Cox in the 1890s, making the Brownie camera a marketing success until the last one was made in 1980.

Function

To record still images on photographic film.

Technical

A box roll film camera that produced 2 ¼ x 3 ¼ inch images on 620 film. The Diway lens had two apertures and a close up setting. It had a rotary shutter.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

S/N '54671' inside on the lens face panel. 'SIX-20 BROWNIE' on the handle.

Missing

None

Finish

Black (cardboard) paper box. Metal face on lens portion. Lens in centre, and two viewfinders. Distance lever on bottom below lens. On the side are the trigger and time shot lever. On top is a film winder. Handle made of leather. Pin acts as lock-in for front face. At rear is a small red red window for noting film frame number.

Decoration

N/A