General Information

Serial #

80984

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal body covered with leather/ leather bellows outside, cloth inside/ glass lens/ cardboard box covered with leather.

Dimensions

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

Length

17.4 cm

Width

9.1 cm

Height

4.3 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

The Pocket Kodak was an easy to use camera with a low price and small size. It permitted consumers to simply place the camera in their pockets or handbags. Kodak promoted photography as pleasurable and entertaining encouraging not only professional photographers but also amateurs. Consumers admired the Pocket Kodak as a simple and fashionable camera (Pocket Kodak, http://www.kodaksefke.nl/pageID_9270736.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 self-erecting folding roll film camera that produced 2¼ X 3¼ inch images on 120 film using a Kodak Anastigmat f/7.7 lens and a Diomatic shutter (Coe, 147).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

'NO.1/ Pocket/ Kodak/ Series II/ 2 1/4 x 3 1/4' PRINTED ON BOX/ BLACKLABEL WITH SILVER LETTERING READS: 'NO.1 POCKET KODAK/ SERIES II/ MADE IN CANADA BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO. LTD./ TORONTO/ 21403'/ LENS READS 'EASTMAN KODAK CO./ ROCHESTER/ N.Y./ U.S.A./ KODAK ANASTIGMAT/ F-7.7/ 108mm/ NO. 566/ DIOMATICNO.0/ DULL-GRAY-CLEAR-BRILLIANT'/ FIGURES INDICATE REQUIRED EXPOSURE/ SN & 'KODAK' APPEAR ON LATCH/ BACK READS: 'USE FILM NO. A-120'/ FRONT READS: 'KODAK/17014'.

Missing

N/A

Finish

Black metal/ black cowhide leather/ chrome plated folding latches/ transparent glass/ black chagrin leather box.

Decoration

N/A