General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Plastic or bakelite body/ glass optics/ metal

Dimensions

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

Length

11.5 cm

Width

10.0 cm

Height

12.0 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

Eastman saw that if the cost could be reduced, more people, and in particular children, might take up photography. Frank Brownell designed the Brownie camera which was launched in 1900. It was named after the little characters created by the popular Canadian children's author and illustrator Palmer Cox. By adopting the name and using the characters in advertising, Eastman gained a major marketing advantage. 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 box rollfilm camera that produced 2¼ X 2¼ inch images on 620 film using a meniscus f/15 lens and a rotary shutter (Coe, 47).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Front - 'BROWNIE Kodak [LOGO] HAWKEYE/ CAMERA Flash MODEL'/ Inside bottom: 'BROWNIE HAWKEYE/ CAMERA Flash MODEL/ THIS CAMERA DOES NOT TAKE 120 FILM/LOAD WITH/ Kodak 620 Film/ MADE IN CANADA BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO., LIMITED/ TRADE MARK REG. CAN. PAT. OFF./ CANADIAN PATENTS PENDING'

Missing

N/A

Finish

Dark brown, glossy body/ gray knobs/ brushed metal faceplate

Decoration

Horizontal grooves moulded into sides of body.