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OBJECT TYPE: ROLLFILM/STRUT
DATE: 1935–1942
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1981.1084.001

MANUFACTURER: Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd.
MODEL: JIFFY KODAK V.P.
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Plastic body, lens board & lens/ metal struts and viewfinder/ fabric bellows

Dimensions

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

Length: 13.7 cm
Width: 6.4 cm
Height: 3.2 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.
Function: To record still images on photographic film.
Technical: A collapsing roll film camera that produced 1? X 2½ inch images on 127 film using a fixed focus doublet lens and a Jiffy V.P shutter (Coe, 117).
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: MODEL NAME, MFR & ADDRERSS PAINTED BLACK ON SILVER METAL LATCH PLATE [SOME DAMAGE]
Missing: Screw on latch/ ref. film window
Finish: Black plastic body & lens board/ nickel-plated struts & viewfinder/ black bellows
Decoration: N/A

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Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd., Camera, between 1935–1942, Artifact no. 1981.1084, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1981.1084.001/

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