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No. 1A Gift Kodak
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- Object
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2005.006.04.54
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[between 1930 and 1931] (Manufacturing)
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- Canadian Kodak Co., Limited
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1 piece of photographic equipment : camera
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Item consists of a No. 1A Gift Kodak folding camera. This was a special version of the No. 1A Pocket Kodak Junior camera with an early Art Deco design by industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague to target a female market audience. The camera has a genuine brown leather trim with metal decorations on the door and faceplate on the shutter. It is a fixed focus model that uses type 116 roll film to take 2.50 x 4.25 inch exposures and has a meniscus achromatic lens. The camera can take instantaneous exposures and time exposures depending on the setting. This gift model was originally priced at $15.00.
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Physical condition
In poor condition.
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated to Ryerson University Library and Archives Special Collections department by Howard & Carole Tanenbaum.
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Open. Records are available for consultation without restriction.