General Information

Serial #

736444

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal body, leather covered. metal bed rails & arms are chromed/ glass lenses/ leather & paper bellows/ interior body wood & metal

Dimensions

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

Length

20.0 cm

Width

4.3 cm

Height

9.7 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). Autographic feature introduced by Kodak in late 1914, and was available on several lines of camera (McKeown, p.120).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

SCREWED ON PLATE ON BELLOWS RUNNING GUIDE 'NO. 1A AUTOGRAPHIC KODAK JR. 13338'/ RIVETED ON PLATE NEXT TO RUNNER ON BED STATES: 'MADE IN CANADA BY CANADIAN KODAK CO. LTD. 13664 TORONTO, CANADA'/ ON BED STAND IN OLD ENGLISH STYLE RAISED LETTERING: 'KODAK'/ INSIDE IN TAKE UP SPOOL POSITION INCISED IT STATES: 'NO. 1A KODAK JUNIOR MODEL-A'/ ON HINGED PLATE ON EXTERIOR BACK IT STATES: 'USE AUTOGRAPHIC FILM NO. A-116'/ PLATE ABOVE LENS BEARS SCALE ‘25 B 50 T 100' AND ‘EKC 13932'/ PLATE SURROUNDING LENS BEARS FOLLOWING INFO.: ‘KODAK BALL BEARING SHUTTER/ PATENTED IN U.S.A. JAN. 18, 1910 JAN. 7, 1913'./ PATENT INFORMATION: ON INSIDE OF BACK COVER: ‘PATENTED IN U.S.A. SEPT. 7, 1909 - OCT. 9, 1909 - MAY 6, 1913 - JULY 8, 1913 - MAY 19, 1914 - JUNE 16, 1914 - OCT. 6, 1914 - JUNE 22, 1915 - FEB. 1, 1916 - MAY 30, 1916 - AUG. 22, 1916 - JULY 19, 1917 - AUG. 28, 1917 - JULY 16, 1918 - OCT. 28, 1919 - NOV. 26, 1920/ PATENTED IN CANADA AUG. 24, 1909 - AUG. 1, 1916/ PATENTED IN AUSTRALIA 13078 MAY 6, 1913 - 15818 - MAR. 1915/ BRITISH PATENTS 9006-1914 - 9007-1914 - 5043-1915/ OTHER PATENTS PENDING'/ SHUTTER PATENTS: JAN. 18, 1910 - JAN. 7, 1913./

Missing

Strap on carrying case does not appear to be original. Red glass frame viewing window.

Finish

Leather covering body is black/ bellows are black/ almost all metal parts (apart from those mentioned in "materials") are black

Decoration

N/A