Kombi

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Alfred C. Kemper
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, IL, Chicago
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1893
PATENT DATE: Dec. 20, 1892
FILM TYPE: rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $3.50
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  subminiature
  box
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: 1¼ in. biconvex

NOTES:
  "intro. 1892. The mini-marvel of the decade. A 4 oz. seamless metal
  miniature box camera with oxidized silver finish. Made to take 25
  exposures 1 1/8" square (or round) on rollfilm, then double as a
  transparency viewer. (From whence the name "Kombi".) Sold for $3.00
  new, and in Kemper ads proclaimed "50,000 sold in one year"."
  McKeown, 1994.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: K323.00001
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 1108

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Lothrop, Eaton S., Jr. --A Century of Cameras from the Collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.-- Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1973. pp 80.//
Hasbroeck, Paul-Henry van. --150 Classic Cameras: From 1839 to the Present.-- London: Sotheby's Publications, 1989. pp 78.//