C Ordinary Kodak

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Company
FABRICATOR: Brownell, Frank
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Ordinary Kodak Model C
SEE ALSO: C Daylight Kodak
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1891
PRODUCTION DATES: 1891-1895
FILM TYPE: C Ordinary rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 4 x 5
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $15.00
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 2025
SERIAL NUMBER RANGE: 674 - 2832
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  box
  string-set
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Single meniscus, with wheel stops
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Polished natural wood box; reflecting finder; front removes for
  aperture and shutter setting; lever focusing; string-set shutter;
  exposure counter and automatic lock; detachable rollholder, glass
  plate attachment available; - camera sold without rollholder as
  "C" Ordinary Glass Plate Kodak camera." (Coe, 1988).
  According to the Kodak camera production order book, demand for
  Ordinary Kodaks was not very large, so 475 C Oridinary cameras were
  changed into C Daylight models.
  Serial number range was derived from known cameras compiled by Don
  Ryan as of August 1984.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E129.00006
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 1075

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 --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//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. p.25.//