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OBJECT TYPE: ROLLFILM/BELLOWS
DATE: 1940–1948
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1985.0721.001

MANUFACTURER: Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd.
MODEL: VIGILANT JUNIOR SIX-16
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: 88464
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 4
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Metal casing and component parts; imitation leather finish; glass lenses; fabric bellows

Dimensions

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

Length: 21.1 cm
Width: 11.7 cm
Height: 5.5 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: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: Unknown
Canada: The Vigilant Junior Six-16 is a less expensive version of the Vigilant Six-16 (Coe, 142). 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 self-erecting folding roll film camera that produced 2½ X 4¼ inch images on 616 film using a Bimat lens and a Dakon shutter (Coe, 143).
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: "Kodak" incised on front latch; SN. on reverse/ "Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-16/ Made in Canada by/ Canadian Kodak Co., Limited/ Toronto, Ont." on mfr's plate inside front cover/ "Kodak", "Dakon", f-stop & shutter speeds incised on camera face/ "Kodak Bimat" incised on lens casing/ "open only/while/winding" printed on metal plate on camera back/ "use/kodak/616/film/caution: this camera/does not take 116 film/patented in Canada/1934 1936/printed in u.s.a. No.75880" appears on yellow & red plate inside cameraback./ "Outdate sur---" printed on fabric tape applied to camera back
Missing: None evident
Finish: Black pebble-grained imitation leather finish.
Decoration: N/A

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Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd., Camera, between 1940–1948, Artifact no. 1985.0721, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1985.0721.001/

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