Box cameras

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300022640

Scope note(s)

  • Early type of camera consisting of a lightproof box, with lens, shutter, and viewfinder, and employing film rather than a plate.

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Box cameras

Equivalent terms

Box cameras

  • UF box camera
  • UF Camera, box
  • UF Cameras, box

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Box cameras

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This is a big photographic year : Eastman cameras will sell faster than ever during the holiday season / Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto Ont.

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.

The Baker Advertising Agency, Limited

Unknown box camera

Item consists of a sheet film wooden box camera with brown leather covering, for 4.5" x 3.5" exposures on sheet film. Manufacturer unknown. Includes 2 wooden film holders.

Six-16 Brownie Junior

Item consists of a Six-16 Brownie Junior box camera that uses 616 film for 2.5 x 4.25 inch exposures. It has a meniscus lens, rotary shutter, and two brilliant viewfinders. It has a leatherette covering and an Art Deco design on the faceplate.

No. 2C Brownie

Item consists of a box camera that uses 130 film for 2 7/8 x 4 7/8 inch exposures. The camera has a meniscus achromatic lens and rotary shutter. The camera has a leatherette covering in a grained pattern, a metal film carrier, two reflecting viewfinders, one tripod socket, and a trigger guard.

Premo Box Camera

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."

No. 2 Flexo Kodak

Item is a box camera that uses No. 101 rollfilm for twelve 3.5 x 3.5 inch exposures. This camera has the unique feature where the sides and back come off completely for loading. It has an achromatic lens and rotary shutter. It was marketed as the "Plico" in Europe.

Dollar Box Camera

Item is a small strapless box camera with a single viewfinder that uses 127 film for 4x6.5cm exposures. Some versions are identified "Ansco Dollar Camera" on the front but this specific one only has "Ansco" on the front. This model also came in black, green, and red. The red version with a strap is known as the "Kiddie Camera".

J-B Ensign [Junior Box Ensign]

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.

No. 3B Quick Focus Kodak

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.

Ensign Box Camera

Item is an Ensign rollfilm box camera that takes 3.25 x 2.25 inch exposures on 120 film. The camera has two viewfinders, three unlabelled aperture settings, and two shutter speeds.

Anniversary Kodak No. 2 Hawk-Eye Camera

Item is a metal box camera with a tan-coloured reptile grained paper covering with a faint imprint of where a gold seal was. This camera was a special edition of the No. 2 Hawk-Eye Camera Model C meant to commemorate the 50th anniversary if the Eastman Kodak Co. In 1930, Kodak gave away approximately 550,000 to children 12 and under. The camera itself is used for 2.25" x 3.25" exposures on rollfilm with a single finder only.

Rainbow Hawk-Eye No. 2 Model C

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.

Box Tengor : [Baby-Box 54/18]

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.

Zeiss Box Tengor 54/2

Item consists of a box camera, for 5 x 7.5 cm exposures on 127 film. Model has two finder lenses placed horizontally across the top front side of the camera. The camera also has an extended hexagonal front plate around the lens with stops and closeup settings around it. There is a black enamel trim around the front end of the camera and a diamond shaped winding knob at the top right side.

No. 2 Bull's-Eye Camera

Item consists of a brown leather-covered wood box which loads from the top; for 3.5" x 3.5" exposures on 101 rollfilm or double plateholders. Camera features a rotary disk shutter and rotating disk stops.

Box Ensign 2 1/4 B

Item consists of a sheet film wooden and cardboard box camera with black leatherette covering, for 3.25" x 2.25" negatives. The camera has a rear opening door for loading and a folding wire frame finder and uses an achromatic meniscus lens with an everset shutter and a periscopic lens in the everset shutter. The camera has dual reflex finders.

DeVry QRS Model K-1

Item consists of a brick-shaped brown plastic camera. It creates 40 24 x 32 mm exposures on 35 mm film in special cassttes. The camera uses a Graf Anastigmat f7/7/40 mm lens with a single-speed shutter that trips by counterclockwise motion on the winding crank.

No. 2 Brownie Camera Model C

Item consists of a cardboard box camera with a black grained pattern cloth covering; for 6 2.25" x 3.25" exposures on 120 film. Camera has a Meniscus lens and rotary shutter.

Brownie Six-20 Camera Model D

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.