General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Leatherette exterior covering. Wooden and metal body, lens housing, and shutter housing. Ground glass lens.

Dimensions

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

Length

18.2 cm

Width

9.7 cm

Height

16.0 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

One of the most usable and more serviceable camera constructions that combines simplicity and reliability with low cost (Taws, 30). Eastman saw that if the cost could be reduced, more people, and in particular children, might take up photography. Brownell came up with the Brownie camera, launched in 1900. It was named after the little characters created by the Canadian author and illustrator Palmer Cox. His doggerel verse and entertaining drawings had been highly popular with children throughout the 1890s, and adopting the name and using the characters in advertising, Eastman, shrewd as always, gained a major marketing advantage. 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 box rollfilm that produced 2? x 4? inch images on 130 film using a meniscus achromatic lens and a rotary shutter.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

On handle: 'No. 2-C BROWNIE'; On back (in raised lettering): 'USE FILM/ NO/ 130/ No 2C BROWNIE'; On back (on mfr. plate): 'MADE IN CANADA/ BY/ CANADIAN/ KODAK CO., LTD./ TORONTO, CANADA' ; Inside camera (stamped into metal): 'No. 2-C BROWNIE/ MODEL A/ U.S. PATENTS/ OCT. 6, 1914. FEB. 1, 1916./ MAR. 21, 1916.'; Inside camera (on sticker): 'PROPERTY OF/ WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY/ 12259'.

Missing

N/A

Finish

Black exterior covering, lens housing, body, shutter housing.

Decoration

N/A