Photograph of two children sitting on floor, surrounded by toys, and four illustrations of cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information - describes cameras being advertised.

Six portraits of men and women at a range of ages, and four illustrations of cameras being advertised. Text contains quotes from each person as captions, and descriptions of cameras being advertised.

green-grey cardboard mount, captions recto and verso: "Authorized Ansco Color Finisher; Insist on Ariston Color Prints." Depicts man in trench coat and glasses, carrying a camera case (possibly sx-70?). He is on the deck of a ship, with lifeboat and water visible behind him.

Photograph of young man and woman in bathing suits, running toward the camera through the surf, with illustrations of cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information. Right edge of headline is slightly cut off.

Photograph of children sledding, with illustrations of 4 cameras being advertised. Text contains handwritten personal note and consumer information.

Two photographs of a couple reading together and playing in the water with another person, and a photograph of the camera being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Photograph of children sledding, with illustrations of 4 cameras being advertised. Text contains handwritten personal note and consumer information.

Photograph of young girl sitting next to a decorated Christmas tree, holding a toy telephone and smiling, with 4 illustrations of the cameras being advertised. Text contains descriptions of the cameras.

Photograph contains two men, one holding a pipe and the other a movie camera, and a boy playing with a dog (dalmatian). Text contains consumer information - describes use of camera and option of full-color Kodachrome film.

Photograph of woman and man smiling at each other, the woman lying on a towel on a rock and the man in water holding onto the edge of the rock, and smaller photograph of Ciné-Kodak K and Magazine Ciné-Kodak cameras. Text contains consumer information - describes use of the 2 movie cameras advertised.

Photograph of two women, a man, and a boy in a bathing costume. Text contains consumer information - describes the camera’s affordability and the option of full-color Kodachrome film.

Color photograph of woman posing on a beach chair, and black and white photograph of Ciné-Kodak K and Magazine Ciné-Kodak cameras. Text contains consumer information - describes use of cameras advertised.

Color photograph of young boy sitting on a bench and playing with a toy, and black and white photograph of cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information - describes use of cameras being advertised.

Photograph of two adults skiing across a snowy mountainside, and illustration of two cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information - describes use of cameras advertised.

Illustration of store display of "Christmas assortment" of Kodak cameras, including Baby Brownies, Brownie Juniors, Bullet and Jiffy cameras. Text contains merchandising and pricing information.

Illustration of young couple using a camera, with illustrations of 4 other cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

borderless unmounted print depicts jockey with gear smiling for man with box camera. Another jockey can be seen to the side on podium. Verso ink stamp "This photograph was made by Pringle & Booth, 181 George St. Toronto, duplicates can be had at any time."

Item is an illustrated colour brochure for Kodak movie cameras, Instamatic cameras, motion picture and slide projectors, and film.

Item is 2 copies of a promotional brochure for Kodak Instamatic cameras, movie cameras, slide projectors, and motion picture projectors.

Item is an illustrated colour brochure for Kodak instant cameras, motion picture and slide projectors, Instamatic cameras, and film.

Item is a colour illustrated promotional pamphlet for Kodak 8mm motion picture cameras, projectors, and accessories.

Item is an illustrated brochure outlining how Kodak cameras work and are manufactured.

Item is a black-and-white illustrated guidebook detailing techniques for making motion pictures with Kodak's Ciné-Kodak camera.

Item is an illustrated guidebook detailing techniques for making motion pictures with Kodak's Ciné-Kodak camera.

Item is a folding camera for use with leather carrying strap.

Item is a horizontal folding camera for 2.25" x 3.25" roll film with an "Autographic" feature. This camera uses metal lensboard instead of wooden.

Item is a folding camera with black bellows and brown leatherette covering and strap; for 2.25" x 3.25" exposures on No.A - 120 film. The camera was made by the Canadian Kodak Co. but the ball bearing lens was patented by the Eastman Kodak Co. in 1910 and 1913.

Item is a black folding camera with black bellows for 2.5" x 4.25" exposures on No. A-116 film with a Diomatic No. 1 lens.

Item is a black bellows and leather covered folding camera, for 2.5" x 4.25" exposures on No. A116 Autographic film. The camera features a Kodak Anastigmat f7.7/130 mm lens and a ball bearing shutter.

Item is a black bellows and leather covered folding camera, for 2¼×3¼ " exposures on No. 120 Autographic film. This later model has a shutter with speeds of B, T, 1/25 sec., 1/50 sec.

Item is a black leather covered folding camera for 3 ¼" x 4 ¼" exposures on 118 roll-film. The camera has maroon cloth bellows and brilliant viewfinder.

Item is a black leather-covered folding camera for 3 ¼" x 5 ½" exposures on 122 roll film. The camera has black cloth bellows and brilliant viewfinder. The original sale price of the camera was $50.50 USD.

Item consists of a Kodak Duaflex camera, the first model in a line of four from Kodak. The camera is a 620 roll film pseudo twin-lens reflex manufactured at Eastman Kodak in Rochester New York. The style of camera imitates the look of professional TLR cameras, such as the Rolleiflex, but has an oversized brilliant viewfinder as oppsed to a reflex finder with a ground glass indicating the focus. Camera has a fixed-focus Kodet lens. Oritinally sold for $17.50 in 1947, this model was superceeded by the Duaflex II camera in 1950.

Item is a small hand held box camera with Bakelite body and brilliant viewfinder. For 6 x 6 cm exposures on 620 roll film. One of the best selling Brownie cameras ever made, it is a simple easy to use design created by Eastman Kodak employee Arthur H. Crapsey. The original sales price was $5.50 for the camera alone and $7.00 for the later flash model, released in 1950.

Item consists of a Brownie Holiday Flash camera. It features a Dakon lens and brown bakelite body. Viewfinder camera for use with 127 film.

Item is a small hand held box camera with Bakelite body, brilliant viewfinder and Kodalite Flash-holder attachment. For 6 x 6 cm exposures on 620 roll film. One of the best selling Brownie cameras ever made, it is a simple easy to use design created by Eastman Kodak employee Arthur H. Crapsey. The original sales price was $5.50 for the camera alone and $7.00 for the flash model.

Item is a box camera for 3.25 x 5.50 inch exposures on 125 mm film. It has a meniscus achromatic lens, a rotary shutter with three stops, two tripod sockets, and two brilliant finders. There is a focus lever on the side of the camera to set proper focal distance. After the focus is set, there is a button to press and the camera will open to proper distance focused and ready.

Item is a simple box camera with a leatherette covering, marked as J-B Ensign on the front. The camera uses 2 1/4B (E20) rollfilm for 6x9cm exposures. It has a meniscus lens, a two-speed shutter, and two reflecting type viewfinders.

Item consists of a Premo 4x5 inch plate camera with 1 plate holder within. This camera opens a the top for reloading. It has a [stiff] safety shutter, a two speed shutter, two viewfinders, an adjustable diaphragm, and two tripod sockets. The plate holder has the following writing on it "The Premo Camera Patent July 19, 1890 Other patents pending."

Item is a metal box camera, for 2.25" x 3.25" exposures on 620 film. It was a continuation of the Six-20 Brownie cameras but was renamed Brownie Six-20. The Model D camera features flash contacts.

Item is a metal box camera with red leather covering, for 2.25" x 3.25" exposures on roll film. This camera was manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company in Toronto, Ontario and is No. 120 of the series.

Item is a box camera with black leather covering, for 3 x 4 cm exposures on 127 film. The name of the manufacturer is imprinted on the front into the leather while the model name of the camera is imprinted on the back. Camera has a Goerz Frontar D.R.P. lens.

Item is a rollfilm panoramic cameras in which the lens pivots and projects the image to the curved focal plane. The camera uses No. 103 rollfilm to take 3.50 x 12 inch exposures. It has a rapid rectilinear lens and a 142 degree angle. This model is the original model for the Panoram Kodak series and has no door to cover the swinging lens.

Item is a sub-miniature camera with an Arokkor f3.5/25 lens and a fixes 1.110 shutter.

Item is marked with the Hanimex brand, though the camera was manufactured by the Vivitar Corporation. It is a 110 format camera with a built-in flash powered by two AA batteries. It has a fixed focus. The photographer can select either a normal or telephoto lens, by using a slide switch on top of the camera.

Item is a subminiature camera with Rokkor F2.8/25mm lens, which used 9mm proprietary cassette film. This model of the Minolta 16 line features a selenium light meter and shutter-priority automatic exposure.

Item is an automatic point and shoot camera for photographs on 110 film. Includes built in lenses, "normal" and "telephoto". Camera has no identifiable manufacturer marking.

Item consists of a Kodak Ektralite 500 camera. It is a 110 cartridge compact viewfinder camera with automatic flash. Black body with hinged cover that can be used as camera grip. Features a Kodak Reomar 22mm lens. Uses 9-volt alkaline battery.

Item is an Instamatic film camera for 13 x 17mm negatives with 110 film cartridges. Features a 26mm, f2.7 Ektar lens and magicube flash shoe. Shutter is an electronic leaf with speeds of 10 seconds to 1/250. This model has a silver body. Original sales price, $28.00.

Item is a "hit" type novelty camera for 14 x 14 mm exposures on 17.5 mm paper-backed rollfilm.

Item is a stereo camera for creating two 24 x 24 mm exposures on standard 35mm cartridge film. The camera has a built in sprit level to ensure that ideal stereo effect is achieved. Kodak produced a corresponding Kodaslide Stereo Viewer and proprietary stereo slide holders for viewing images shot with the camera. Lenses are Kodak Anaston F3.5/35mm with a Kodak Flash 200 shutter.

Item is a four-lens, three-dimensional camera developed by Jerry Curtis Nims and Allen Kwok Wah Lo and manufactured in the UK. The camera has a plastic body and 4 identical lenses, coupled with a shutter that exposes the four square images in synch. When exposed, 35mm film was sent to the Nimslo Co. in England and a few other specialty labs. The customer received developed, autostereo (lenticular) colour prints, which allow a true stereo image without the use of glasses. This process was also developed by Nims and Lo.

Item is a brown Kodak Stereo Camera for two 23 x 24 mm exposures on standard 35mm cartridge film. The camera had a built in sprit level to ensure ideal stereo effect was achieved. Kodak produced a corresponding Kodaslide Stereo Viewer and proprietary stereo slide holders for images shot with this camera. Lenses are Kodak Anaston F3.5/35mm with a Kodak Flash 200 shutter. The viewfinder is between the two lenses.

Item is an inexpensive plastic "3-D" stereo camera made by the Coronet Camera Company. The camera has a binocular viewfinder for 4 stereo pairs or 8 single exposures and uses 127 film for 4.5 x 5 cm exposures, featuring a single speed shutter, 1/50, and a twin f11 meniscus fixed-focus lenses.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras, projectors, and accessories.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras and projectors.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras and projectors.

Item is a 35mm camera with a built in electric 3 frames per second motor winder powered by four AA batteries that also run the metering and shutter timing. The camera has modes for aperture priority and manual.

Item is a manual, single-lens reflex 35mm camera that is an improved version of FX-3. Dedicated flash contact in hot shoe. Rubberized handgrip. All black body.

Item is a 35 mm single lens reflex autofocus camera with auto wind, and auto exposure.

Item is a 35mm camera with satin chrome finish on top and trim. Winding and speed setting on top right, shutter speeds to 1/1250, and rangefinder and viewfinder windows combined. Lens is a Sonnar 50mm, 1:2.

Item consists of a Kodak Signet 35 camera. It has a 45mm f/3.5 Kodak Ektar Lens with rear helicoid focus. The body is sturdy cast aluminum alloy, and it features an automatic film stop counter. It has a Kodak Synchro 300 shutter with 5 speeds and uses 35mm film. It was the first of the Kodak Signet camera line.

Item consists of a Kodak Retina Ia. It is a folding camera that uses 35mm film and was manufactured by Kodak AG in Germany from 1951-1954. It is a revision of the Kodak Retina I, featuring a rapid winding lever and a film glide roller on the back door. It has an optical viewfinder, no rangefinder, a synchro-compur M-X flash synch, and a Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenar f:3.5/50mm lens. It was later superseded by the Kodak Retina Ib in 1954.

Item consists of a Kodak Pony IV. It is a 35mm film camera with a rigidly mounted 44mm f/3.5 Kodak Anastar Lens and a four-speed Kodak Flash 250 Shutter. It originally sold for $40 USD. It is the only Pony model to feature an accessory shoe.

Item consists of a Kodak 35 camera. It was the first 35mm film Kodak still camera produced in the United States. It was imported to Canada by the Canadian Kodak Co., Limited. It has a Kodak Kodex Shutter with three speeds (1/25 to 1.100 plus T and B), and a Kodak Anastigmat f:5.6, 50mm lens. It has a black body with rounded sides, a lens/shutter unit with two film advance wheels and a collapsible optical viewfinder. It was crafted out of Bakelite with metallic panels and inserts. It failed to do well in the marketplace due to high prices and strong competition, particularly from the Argus C series. It originally sold for $40 USD, the equivalent of approximately $600 today. This f/5.6 version of the Kodak 35 was replaced by one with flash synchronization after the war.

Item consists of a Kodak Pony 135 Camera, Model C. It has a Kodak Flash 300 Shutter 1/25-1/300, a 44mm f/3.5 Kodak Anaston Lens and uses 135 film format. It features a faster shutter and a shorter focal length to previous models. The body is made of brown Bakelite. Above the lens is an aperture scale for Kodachrome and Ektachrome films.

Item consists of a Kodak Motormatic 35F. It was the first of Kodak's automatic exposure cameras, and the last of their American-made 35mm cameras. It has a 44mm f/2.8 Kodak Ektanar Lens, a Kodak Automatic Flash shutter, and is a fixed-lens viewfinder camera that focused by scale or estimate. The Motormatic was part of the same series as the Kodak Automatic, but the Motormatics had a 4 speed user selectable shutter and a spring driven power film advance, as opposed to the Automatics, which had a 2 speed shutter and manual lever film advance. The 35F model featured a built-in AG-1 Flash gun.

Item consists of a Kodak Motormatic 35R4. It was the first of Kodak's automatic exposure cameras, and the last of their American-made 35mm cameras. It has a 44mm f/2.8 Kodak Ektanar Lens, a Kodak Automatic Flash shutter, and is a fixed-lens viewfinder camera that focused by scale or estimate. The Motormatic was part of the same series as the Kodak Automatic, but the Motormatics had a 4 speed user selectable shutter and a spring driven power film advance, as opposed to the Automatics, which had a 2 speed shutter and manual lever film advance. The 35R4 model featured a built-in AG-1 Flashgun.

Item consists of a Voigtländer Vito BL 35mm viewfinder camera. It has a Voigtländer Color-Skopar 1:3.5/50mm lens and a Prontor-SVS leaf shutter. It is similar to the Vito B, but features a built-in exposure meter.

Item is a small format camera for 35mm exposures on 127 film. The kit includes a carrying case, Weston Master II light meter, filters, waist level viewfinder, lens hood, Bushness Reflect Adapter, extender tube, Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm lens and Steinheil Munchen Culminar 135mm lens. This camera outfit is designed for macrophotography and photomicrography and includes attachments for a micorscope.

Item is a 35mm single lens reflect film camera. The design of the camera includes TTL flash connection, cloth shutter and CdS match-needle light metering. Shutter speeds range from 1-1000th of a second and the lens is 50mm f1.8 Rollei Xenon lens. The camera body is black leatherette. This model was produced by Franke & Heidecke between 1970 and 1976. While early unites were made in Germany, this item was made in Singapore. Includes a leather Rollei camera case.

Item consists of a Contax camera body for photographs on 35mm film. Camera body is all-metal, die-cast with eye level penta-prism, shutter speeds of B-1/1000 second and hot shoe. Lens mount is a Contax/Yashica with a Yashica 35-105mm zoom lens. Works with 4 AA batteries. Includes manual.

Item is a 35 mm rangefinder camera. This is an automatic exposure camera with shutter priority and manual override. The camera has a Canon SE f2.5, 45mm lens with a Copal SV shutter, with speeds from 1/15 - 1/500th of a second.

Item consists of an automatic 35mm camera manufactured by the Nikon Corporation and using the F lens mount system. The system mas marketed to more advanced amateurs but was often used by professional photographers as well. The camera features an LCD display screen for viewing and changing settings, the option of wide or spot auto-focus, and possible shutter speeds of 30 seconds to 1/8000 plus bulb with a flash synch of 1/125. The camera requires 4 AA batteries.

Item consists of a 35mm camera for underwater and all-weather photography, manufactured by the Nikon Corporation. The camera design was based on the Calypso camera, originally designed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Jean de Wouters. Nikon acquired the production rights to this model in 1962, and six models were created. The Nikonos V model was available in green or orange (this model is green) and featured automatic focusing with aperture priority and manual override. The camera is water resistant to 50 meters and features a Nikkor 35mm f2.5 lens and shutter with speeds from 1/30 to 1/1000 plus bulb setting.

Item consists of a single-lens reflex, 35mm camera manufactured by Chinon Industries Inc. Lens is a I35-80mm, f/4.1–6.4 lens, with a manual zoom lever.

Series consists of cameras that combine exposure and development in one step to create photographs instantaneously.
While Polaroid is by far the most well known of these cameras, the first patent for instant photography was for the Dubroni, a French wet plate camera, designed so that the glass plate could be sensitized and developed by pouring the chemicals over the plate through a tube in the camera. Later cameras were developed so small tintypes (1895) and direct paper positives (1913) could be made quickly for tourists on busy streets.
But it was the Polaroid Corporation that made instant photography a household item, beginning in 1937 when Edwin Land's young daughter's desire to see her photograph immediately, inspired him to develop the Polaroid's first instant camera: the Land Camera.

The Heritage Collection also contains Kodak Instant Cameras; produced in the late 1970's, they spawned a patent infringement lawsuit from the Polaroid corporation that resulted in the recall all of instant Kodak models sold and the discontinuation of their production.

To browse the individual items in this series, click on the "View the list" link under the "File and item records are available for this series" title (to the right of the page).

Source: <a href="http://www.shutterbug.com/content/it%E2%80%99s-instant%E2%80%94-it%E2%80%99s-not-polaroid-pre-and-post-polaroids-1864-1976">Wade, John. "It's Instant - But It's Not Polaroid: Pre- And-PostPolaroids, From 1864 to 1976." Shutterbug : Published May 1, 2012.</a>

Item is a Polaroid Land Camera Super Colorpack instant film camera. Similar to the Polaroid Super Shooter, the Super Colorpack has a rigid plastic body and a manual finder on the lens and uses peel-apart Land Pack Films.

Item is a stereographic camera for dual exposures on 45x107mm glass plate negatives. This camera is missing the front lens plate and back plate, which were removable for the camera to function as a stereoscopic viewer as well.

Item consists of a twin-lens reflex camera for 6 x 6 cm exposures on 120 film. Contains a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar f4.5/75 mm lens and a Heidoscop-Anastigmat f3.1/75 mm lens and a Compur shutter.The camera has a Carl Zeiss Jena lens cap.

Item is the rangefinder model of the Canonet 28. It has a CDS (cadmium sulphide) cell above the lens which is a Canon F2.8 40 mm. It has a Canonlite D flash attached to the hot shoe mount.

Item is a wood and brass folding field camera, likely of English manufacture, for (3 1/4" x 4 1/4") or "quarter plate" exposures on glass plates. Camera is a landscape orientation, bellows are extended and clipped in place with keyhole slugs and focused using twin tracks. The fixed lens board has a mounted f8 brass Taylor Taylor and Hobson brass lens with no shutter.

Item is a 35 mm automatic camera with zoom and digital display. has red eye feature, timer, flash and remote function has a switch to toggle from panoramic to regular film size.

Item consists of a Kodak Cameo Motor Ex camera outfit, including camera, 2 AAA batteries, instruction manual and a roll of 12 exposure Kodak Gold 400 ISO 35 mm film for colour prints. Develop before date of film is January 2001. The camera itself has a slim black body with rounded edges and a flip-up automatic flash that covers the viewfinder when closed. Other features include automatic film advance, self-timer and film speed selection.

Item consists of a Kodak VR35 K12. It is a 35mm fully automatic camera. It features an auto-focusing f2.8/35 mm ektar lens with a flip-up lens cover that reveals a built-in flash.. Black in colour. Option to manually choose forced flash. Snap on tele and wide angle aux lenses available. Uses one 9-volt alkaline battery. Made in Japan.

Item consists of a Kodak KB18 35 mm film camera. It features a 30 mm f/8 2-element aspheric lens, shutter speed of 1/100 sec. and a built in flash unit. Uses 2 AAA alkaline batteries.

Item consists of a Kodak Cameo Motor Ex camera for use with 35 mm film. The camera itself has a slim black body with rounded edges and a flip-up automatic flash that covers the viewfinder when closed. Gold text on the centre recto of the camera reads: CAMEO MOTOR EX. Other features include automatic film advance, self-timer and film speed selection. This particular model was made in Mexico.

Item consists of a Kodak Cameo Motor Ex camera for use with 35 mm film. The camera itself has a slim black body with rounded edges and a flip-up automatic flash that covers the viewfinder when closed. Gold text on the centre recto of the camera reads: CAMEO MOTOR EX. Other features include automatic film advance, self-timer and film speed selection. This particular model was made in Mexico.

Item consists of a Kodak Cameo Motor Ex camera for use with 35 mm film. The camera itself has a slim black body with rounded edges and a flip-up automatic flash that covers the viewfinder when closed. Gold text on the centre recto of the camera reads: CAMEO MOTOR EX. Other features include automatic film advance, self-timer and film speed selection. This particular model was made in Mexico.

Item consists of a Canon, 35 mm, fully automatic point and shoot camera with built in flash and sliding lens cover. The F 4.2 - 7.8, 70mm zoom lens retracts when camera is closed.

Item consists of 5 one-time-use, 35mm, 15 exposure cameras with Kodak Max film and flash. Cameras have floral design, intented to be placed on tables at wedding receptions. New in box, fIlm expiration date, November 2003.