General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal body; glass lens/ wooden case lined in flocked. fabric & covered in textured cloth. metal fittings

Dimensions

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

Length

13.3 cm

Width

9.5 cm

Height

13.5 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

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

The Beau Brownie came with the use of fashion colours in cameras with a modernistic geometric pattern in two tones on the front panel. By the year 1934 the box camera had reverted to its more traditional sober colour (Coe, 94). 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. In 1898 George Eastman decided to produce a simple & inexpensive camera capable of producing fair quality photographs. Brownie cameras became synonymous with popular photography for over 80 years. They were reliable and good value for the money. Between 1900 & c.1964 over 100 different brownie models were produced.

Function

To record still images on photographic roll film.

Technical

A box rollfilm camera that produced 2½ X 4¼ inch images on 116 film. The Kodak doublet lens allowed a shorter body than usual Brownie Boxes (Coe, 34).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

'BEAU/ BROWNIE/ DOUBLET/ LENS' APPEARS ON FACE PLATE/ 'USE KODAK FILM 116' & DIRECTIONAL ARROW APPEAR IN RAISED PRINT BELOW WINDING KEY/ DECAL INSIDE CAMERA BODY DEPICTS FILM ROLL & BOX, AND READS: 'USE KODAK/ FILM 116/ USE KODAK FILM/ IN THE YELLOW BOX/ It gets the picture/ No. 2A BEAU BROWNIE/ MADE IN CANADA/ BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO./ LIMITED/ TORONTO, ONT./ PATENTED IN U.S.A./ 1,169,882/ 1,176,329/ 1,314,523/ 1,494,719/ 1,620,304/ PATENTS PENDING/PRINTED IN U.S.A. NO. 41,109'/ 'TOP' APPEARS IN RAISED PRINT ABOVE/ 'KODAK FILM' INCISED ON METAL ENDS OF FILM SPOOL/

Missing

Carry strap for case

Finish

Rose coloured body, face-plate & case/ camera body & caseare pebble textured

Decoration

N/A