General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Vinyl/ metal/ glass

Dimensions

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

Length

6.2 cm

Width

2.4 cm

Height

12.5 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

June 1929, discontinued production 1934

Canada

The Kodak Petite was marketed towards women. This model was sold in five different colours and special art-deco patterns (Kodak Petite, http://kodak.digitalfx.tv/html/pet.html). 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 folding rollfilm camera that produced 1? X 2½ inch images on 127 film using a meniscus lens and a Vest Pocket rotary shutter (Coe, 131).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

MFR'S NAME PRINTED AROUND FRONT OF LENS ALONG WITH LOGO & MODEL NAME/Use Kodak No. A-127 Film/made in Canada by Canadian Kodak Co. Limited, Toronto, ont.

Missing

Missing autographic stylus

Finish

Smooth green vinyl case over modified rectangular metal case, blue leather bellows, light green colour on lens housing & support

Decoration

N/A