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- OBJECT TYPE
- ROLLFILM/BELLOWS
- DATE
- 1914–1925
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1981.0833.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd.
- MODEL
- Autographic Kodak Junior 1A
- LOCATION
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 495179
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Metal body covered with leather/ fabric bellows/ glass lens/ metal lens board
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 20.7 cm
- Width
- 9.8 cm
- Height
- 4.4 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 rollfilm. - Technical
-
Autographic feature introduced by Kodak in late 1914, and was available on several lines of cameras (McKeown, p 120). A folding rollfilm camera that produced 2½ X 4¼ inch images on 116 film using a meniscus achromatic fixed focus lens (Coe, 77). The Autographic Kodak Junior 1A appears with an aperture size of f/4 - f/128 using a ball bearing shutter. The Autographic Kodak Junior 1A "permitted a message to be written on the film between frames. The spool was wound with a layer of carbon paper between the film and the thin red backing paper. After taking a photograph, the user would open up the small door on the back of the camera and using the provided stylus inscribed a brief note" (Hoyt, http://www.clickondavid.com/index-62.html). - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- 'KODAK' EMBOSSED ON HANDLE & ON LENS BOARD SUPPORT STRUT/ METAL PLATE WITH MFR'S NAME & ADDRESS ONLENS BASEBOARD/ LENS NAME ENGRAVED AROUND LENS MOUNT/ METAL PLATE WITH MODEL NAME AT BOTTOM OF LENS BOARD
- Missing
- Red film window
- Finish
- Black pebbled leather cover/ black bellows/ black enamelled metal with nickel-plated shiny parts throughout
- Decoration
- N/A
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Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd., Camera, between 1914–1925, Artifact no. 1981.0833, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1981.0833.001/
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