The GEH Brownie Collection

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E130.00353


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No 2A Beau Brownie

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
DESIGNER: Teague, Walter Dorwin
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Brownie, No 2A Beau
INTRODUCTION DATE: Oct. 1930
PRODUCTION DATES: 1930-1933
FILM TYPE: 116 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 2½ x 4¼in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $5.25
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: Box rollfilm
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS:
  doublet lens
  rotary shutter
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Metal body box styled by Walter Dorwin Teague with two-tone
  enamelled geometric Art Deco design front panel in five colours -
  black, tan, rose, green, blue - with matching leatherette covering.
  Green and rose models sold only in 1930 and 1931. The doublet lens
  allowed a shorter body than with usual Brownie boxes." (Coe, B, 1988).

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00353
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 2

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gibson, Dave & Ryon, Don. --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//
Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. pp. 34.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection Manuals.//

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