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E130.01058


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No 2 Folding Brownie (Model A)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Brownie, No 2 Folding
INTRODUCTION DATE: April 1904
PRODUCTION DATES: April 1904-June 1907
FILM TYPE: 120 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 2¼ x 3¼in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $5.00
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 76,000
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: Folding rollfilm
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Meniscus Achromatic
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Imitation leather covered wood body and baseboard; wood lens panel;
  reversible reflecting finder; sliding focusing with automatic catch;
  back released by sliding latch." (Coe, 1988)
  .
  1904-1905: Brownie Automatic shutter
  1905-1907: Pocket Automatic shutter

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.01058

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gibson, Dave & Ryon, Don. --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984. pp7.//
Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. p. 180.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection.//

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No 2 Folding Brownie (Model A)

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