Brownie (original model)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
FABRICATOR: Brownell Manufacturing Co.
DESIGNER: Brownell, Frank A.
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
INTRODUCTION DATE: Feb. 1900
PRODUCTION DATES: Feb. 1900-Oct. 1901
PATENT DATE: Apr. 11, 1899
FILM TYPE: 117 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 2¼ x 2¼in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $1.00
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 260,000
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: box
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: meniscus
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  Leatherette covered card box camera. Earliest models (about 15,000)
  have slide-off back; improved version introduced March 15, 1900 have
  bottom hinged card back with sliding metal latch. Camera uses 'V'
  sighting frame, waist level add-on finder available August 1900.
  Detachable winding key. Most of this first batch was sent to
  Kodak Limited.
  US patent numbers: 622,955 (04/11/99), 662,762 (11/27/00), 725,034
  (04/14/03)
  The Feb. 1900 Trade Circular lists a 6 exposure roll of transparent
  film at 15¢ paper-negative film at 10¢, 40¢ for processing (6 exp1901)
  The first cameras were shipped on Feb. 8, 1900, according to the EKC
  camera production manuscript.
  The Brownie character box is first announced in the June 1901 EKC
  Trade Circular.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00034
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 215

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 --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//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