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E130.00045


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Brownie Holiday

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
SEE ALSO:
  Brownie Bullet
  Brownie Chiquita
INTRODUCTION DATE: Oct. 1953
PRODUCTION DATES: 1953-1957
FILM TYPE: 127 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 1 5/8 x 2½in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $4.25
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: Box rollfilm
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS:
  Kodet
  Dakon (plastic)
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Moulded brown and tan plastic body; optical direct vision finder.
  1953-Sept. 1957; non-synchronised model." (Coe, B, 1988).
  From July 1955, had plastic lens.
  .
  premium versions of this called Brownie Bullet and Brownie Chiquita

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00045

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 --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//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. 47.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection Manuals.//

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