General Information

Serial #

74846

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Plastic body/ metal rewind button, struts/ glass lens/ leather & cloth bellows/ case is leather.

Dimensions

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

Length

15.0 cm

Width

7.5 cm

Height

3.6 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

ON LOCK, INCISED, PICKED OUT IN BLACK IS: 'JIFFY KODAK V.P. MADE IN CANADA BY CANADIAN KODAK CO. LIMITED, TORONTO, ONT.'/ STICKER INSIDE BACK STATES: 'JIFFY KODAK V.P. USE KODAK 127 FILM MADE IN CANADA BY CANADIAN KODAK CO. LTD. TORONTO ONT. PRINTED IN U.S.A. No 74846'

Missing

Case snap (positive) broken off but not missing.

Finish

All black except for struts, rewind button/ case is brown.

Decoration

N/A