General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal film housing. Wooden camera body. Leather covered. Glass viewers and lens.

Dimensions

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

Length

15.8 cm

Width

11.3 cm

Height

13.2 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 cardboard box roll film camera that produced 3 ¼ x 4 ¼ inch exposures on 124 film. It had a waist level viewfinder, a meniscus lens and rotary shutter.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

On leather strap: 'BROWNIE'; On back: 'No 3 BROWNIE/ USE "KODAK" FILM/ No/ 124/ MADE IN CANADA BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO., LIMITED/ TORONTO, ONT.'; Inside the camera: 'No. 3 BROWNIE CAMERA/ MODEL B./ U.S. PATENTS/ OCT. 6. 1914 FEB. 1 .1916./ MAR. 21. 1916.'

Missing

None

Finish

Black interior and leather exterior. Chromed shutter release, closing catches, and film advance. Window/viewer at back of camera is red. All sides have a double square pattern of slightly raised leather.

Decoration

N/A