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No. 1A Pocket Kodak, Model B

Item is a No. 1A Pocket Kodak Model B Camera. It is a medium sized camera with black leather casing and red leather bellows, metal clasps that made 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch exposures on 116 film. The A indicates that the camera is an Autographic version that allowed the photographer to add written information to the film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Special Six-16

Item is a medium sized camera with black casing and black leather bellows, metal clasps. It features a Kodak Anastigmat Special 127mm f/4.5 lens, a Compur Rapid shutter with speeds from 1 to 1/400th seconds and uses 616 film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Bantam RF

Item is a small rangefinder camera made for use with 828 special 35mm paper backed roll film. It has a brown Bakelite body with metal and aluminum accents. It is equipped with a non-self-cocking Flash 300 shutter and 50mm f/3.9 Kodak Ektanon lens. It has an optical viewfinder with superimposed coupled rangefinder and a 3 element lens that is mildly radioactive. Equipped with Kodak Ektanon Lens.

Eastman Kodak Company

Pocket Instamatic 50

Item is a long and flat camera with black plastic, and metal casing with magicube flash attached. It is a pocket model of the first Instamatic released, the Instamatic 50. It features automatic exposure control, focusing lens, tripod bush, and allows for cable release. Two LEDs in the viewfinder indicate low light and used bulb. Made for use with 110 cartridge film, it has a 26mm f/2.7 lens and 10-1/250 shutter speeds. Made an impressively sharp image.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak S900 Tele

Item is a twin lens DX programmed camera that with the release of the flash gun creates exposure to the lens and the viewfinder. It has a fixed-focus 34mm lens and an autofocus 60mm lens. The flash can be used as manual or automatic, and there is a motor for winding the film. Uses a 9 volt lithium battery pack.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Disc 6000

Item is a small, flat, hand-held camera with black plastic body and a fold-up cover. Intended by Kodak to replace their instamatic line of cameras, the Kodak Disc cameras were designed to be simple to use, with all automatic functions. The camera used Disc film, a proprietary format that made 15, 11 x 8 mm exposures; this small negative size made the resulting prints very grainy when enlarged and, while the camera did well when it was first introduced, it lost populatiry due to the low quality prints it produced. Item includes a built in flash. Similar to the 4000 model, the 6000 also features a close-focus lens for 1.5 to 4 feet.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Disc 3000

Item is a small, flat, hand-held camera with black plastic body. Intended by Kodak to replace their instamatic line of cameras, the Kodak Disc cameras were designed to be simple to use, with all automatic functions. The camera used Disc film, a proprietary format that made 15, 11 x 8 mm exposures; this small negative size made the resulting prints very grainy when enlarged and, while the camera did well when it was first introduced, it lost populatiry due to the low quality prints it produced. Item includes a built in flash and wrist strap. Similar to the 4000 model, but uses a replaceable 9 volt battery.

Eastman Kodak Company

Hawkeye Instamatic II

Small snapshot camera with black and tan plastic body (mottled in places to look like leatherette) similar to the Instamatic 44. Large winding mechanism on top left for film advance, and a flashcube attachment on the top right. Made for use with 126 cartridge film, this camera featured an f/11 meniscus lens and a 1/50 sec. shutter.

Eastman Kodak Company

Hawkeye Pocket Instamatic

Item is a small snapshot camera with narrow and horizontal body design. It has an orange coloured release button on top and is built of black and tan plastic (the tan colour mottled to look like leatherette). Made for use with 110 film, this camera resembles the Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110 in its f/11 25mm Meniscus lens, 2 speed shutter, Magicube facility and use of 110 cartridge film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Instamatic 104

Item is a small hand held camera with metal and black leatherette casing. Strap attached. Used 126 cartridge film and AAA batteries. Similar to the Instamatic 100 but utilising flashcubes rather than individual bulbs.

Eastman Kodak Company

Brownie Twin 20

This camera has the unusual feature, for a non-folding camera, of both eye-level and waist-level viewfinders. The focussing lens has three aperture stops and both viewfinders shows brightline framing marks for 'Superslide' format. Flash facility is provided by the 'Pin & Screw' contacts on the left-hand side of the body, Kodak Supermite flasholder attached. Uses 620 rollfilm.

Eastman Kodak Company

No. 1A Pocket Kodak

Item is a No. 1A Pocket Kodak. It is a medium sized camera with black leather casing, metal clasps, and Kodex No. 1 shutter (manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company, the rest of the camera body was produced by the Canadian branch), that made 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch exposures on 116 film. The A indicates that the camera is an Autographic version that allowed the photographer to add written information to the film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Cine-Kodak Model B

Item is a Cine-Kodak Model B, the follow-up model of the Cine-Kodak which was the first 16mm camera. It has a cast aluminum body, hand crank and spring motor. The use of a tripod was required to allow varying speeds and single frames to be taken.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak XL 55

Introduced by Kodak in 1971, XL (eXisting Light) was incorporated with Super 8 to use their new High Speed Ektachrome Super 8 colour film and was designed to be able to film in as low light conditions as possible. The lens aperture is F1.2 compared to the super 8 normal of F1.8 and the film intermittent mechanism film pulldown speed was increased to allow a shutter open angle of 230 degrees compared to a typical 160 degrees previously. No light was diverted away from the film for a reflex viewfinder or TTL metering. The Kodak XL cameras had a unique "binocular" shape allowing easy two handed shooting.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Pleaser Instant Camera

Item is a snapshot camera for instant photographs using Kodak PR-10 instant film. This was Kodak's response to the successful instant cameras produced by Polaroid. A patent infringement case was brought against Kodak by Polaroid in 1977 and was finally settled in 1986, in Polaroid's favour. Kodak recalled all their instant cameras, offering customers a new camera or a rebate in exchange.

Kodak VR35 K12

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.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak KB 18

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.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Cameo Motor Ex

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.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Cameo Motor Ex

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.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Cameo Motor Ex

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.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak acid fixing powder

Package for Kodak Acid Fixing Power, quarter pound size. Prepared for use with Eastman Non Curling Films. Box is empty except for a cork stopper.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak non-curling orthochromatic film cartridge boxes

Packaging for 3 rolls Kodak Non-Curling Orthochromatic film, opened. Two boxes still contain rolled sheets with instructions for use. One large box of 128 film, size 3 1/4 x 5 1/2, is stamped with directions to develop before July 1, 1912. The package was produced in Rochester, NY and printed in French, German and Spanish for sale in European markets. Two small boxes contained 116 film, size 2 1/2 x 4 1/4. One package is stamped with a develop-by date of Mar. 1, 1915. There is a sticker taped across this package with the words "Extra Rapid Eastman Speed Film". The second package is in English only, with instructions to use by October 1928.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Portra 120 film

Rolls of Portra 160 VC - 120 film in original packaging, unopened. Stamped on the wrappers is the develop-by date of 05/2002.

Daylight Kodak high speed ektachrome film

A high speed daylight colour film for slides produced by Kodak, in original, unopened packaging with instructions to process before January 1974. 8, 12, or 16 exposures at EH 120.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Ektrachrome 50 color reversal film

Roll of Kodak Ektachrome colour reversal film in original packagining, unopened, with instrcutions to process before July 1991. 120 ISO 50/8, 10, 12 or 16 exp. Catalogue number #160 3984 Eastman Kodak, U.S.A.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Professional film: Ektachrome

Package of 50 sheets, 8x 10 inch. Kodak Professional Ektachrome film for use with tungsten light, opened with some sheets missing. The box has been re-sealed with clear tape. Kodak Canada catalogue number 154 5870. Stamped for use by 03/1991.

Eastman Kodak Company

M-Q developer tubes

Empty cardboard tube with labelled "M-Q Developer Tubes" produced by Ansco Company. The label further explains that the chemicals in the package were "Adpated to any make of Dry Plates, Films, Developing and Bromide Papers" and gives directions for use developing photographic papers, films and plates. Two pieces of cork which would have blocked the ends of the tube are shoved inside.

Agfa Ansco Co.

Agfa Commercial Orthochromatic film

Packaging for Agfa Commercial Orthochromatic film, opened and empty. A sticker on the top left indicates the product was safety film. A red, circular sticker at the top right depicts the logo for the NRA.

Agfa Ansco Co.

Special Vocational Schools (New York and elsewhere)

File contains a newspaper article about the High School of Performing Arts in New York, New York, and a copy of the Educational Studies and Documents No. 36 "Technical and Vocational Education in the U. S. A" - a bibliographical survey prepared by the United States Office of Education.

Developer tubes

Orange cardboard tubes have grey labels printed with black ink: "M - Q DEVELOPER TUBES, Adapted to any make of Dry Plates, Films, Developing and Bromide Papers. PAPER, FILMS AND PLATES -- Dissolve thoroughly in Five ounces of water the contents of red end of tube. Then add and dissolve remainder."

Ansco Company

Reversible Back Premo camera

Item is a folding field camera for exposures on 8x10 plates, manufactured by the Rochester Optical and Camera Company. Wood camera with red bellows and brass hardware. Created for advanced amateur and professional photographers, the back was reversible to allow the photographer to photograph in both landscape and portrait orientations and had adjustable tilt to account for distortion. Includes a Ross f8-64 lens.

No. 3A Autographic Kodak camera, Model C

Item is a folding camera with black leatherette case and leather bellows. Features a cord with metal push button shutter-release. Fitted with a Kodak Antistigmat lens f7.7 (170mm), No. 11592. Took Autographic film No. A-122. Serial no. 652261.

Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic

Item is a folding trellis strut camera from the Vest Pocket series for 4.5 x 6 cm (1.77" x 2.36") exposures on 127 roll film. Lens is a Kodak Anastigmat 84mm f4.7, with a ball-bearing shutter with B,T, 1/25, 1/50, etc.. A case in included.

No. 1 Folding Pocket Kodak

Item is a metal folding camera with black bellows for 2.25" x 3.25" exposures. Camera uses a Pocket Automatic shutter and has win sprung struts for the lensboard.

Premoette Junior

Item is a black leather-covered aluminum-bodied folding-bed camera for filmpacks. The bed folds down but not to a full 90 degree angle. The camera has no tracks on the bed but the front standard pulls out and clips into two slots at the front. The front slot is for taking photographs of objects that are 6 to 20 feet away and the back slot is for objects more than 20 feet away. The item uses a ball bearing lens.

No. 3 Folding Brownie Model C

Item is a black imitation leather-covered wooden folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" exposures, on No. 124 film. The camera has red cloth bellows and was originally priced at $9.00 USD.

Eastman Kodak Company

Ansco Shur-Flash

Item is an inexpensive box camera made of fiberboard and covered with imitation leather. The camera has a Gallileo-type viewfinder only (no brilliant viewfinder), flash contacts, and a single speed shutter that is fast enough to accommodate bulb flashes. It used 120 size roll film.

Kodak Medalist I

Item consists of a Kodak Medalist I. It is a 620 film, with a bright finder than attempts to combine the magnified rangefinder and the minified viewfinder. The camera was built during the war and was nicknamed the American Leica, for the design criteria that good pictures could save the lives of soldiers, and the Medalist could take them. It is a medium format, roll film camera with a sharp, multicoated lens, and a rigid aluminum and steel body. The camera has a unique double helical lens tube in place of cloth bellows.

Brownie No. 2C Model A

Item consists of a Kodak No. 2-C Brownie Model A box camera. The camera used 130 roll film for an image size of 5.715 x 10.795 cm. It has a standard Meniscus achromatic lens and a rotary shutter.

Kodak Fiftieth Anniversary Box Brownie

Item consists of a Kodak Fiftieth Anniversary Brownie box camera. It was a commemorative edition Brownie camera that was handed out to children at fairs in the United States during the 1930s. The body of the camera is card covered in brown leatherette, and features a silver seal for the fiftieth anniversary of the Eastman Kodak Company, from 1880 to 1930. It is a simple camera that used 120 medium format film.

Kodak Duaflex III camera

Item is a mock twin lens reflex camera with Bakelite body and metal fittings, for use with 620 roll film. Designed to mimic the look of a twin lens camera, the topmost "lens" is in fact a brilliant viewfinder. Camera has a fixed focus Kodet lens.

Magazine Cyclone No. 5

Item is a black leather wooden box-style magazine camera for 4x5 inch plates. The camera has a meniscus lens, a time and instantaneous shutter, and two reflecting type viewfinders. This camera model was made by the Western Camera Manufacturing Company prior to 1899 when it became part of the Rochester Optical & Camera Company.

Detective camera

Item is a wooden, leather-covered Waterbury Improved Detective Camera. The design is a simple box format with film holders accessed through a door at the rear, and shutter assembly inside the front of box. On the inside of the plate holder door, a sticker reads "Caution, This film must be developed before Jan. 1st, 1900."

Kodak Disc 8000

Item is a small, flat, hand-held camera with black plastic body and brushed metal, gold-coloured front plate. Intended by Kodak to replace their instamatic line of cameras, the Kodak Disc cameras were designed to be simple to use, with all automatic functions. Took Disc film, a proprietary format that made 15, 11 x 8 mm exposures; this small negative size made the resulting prints very grainy when enlarged and the camera model was not Kodak's most popular. Item has a built in flash and wrist strap. In plastic display original packaging. Uses HR disc.

National Graflex Series II

Item is a black single lens reflex camera for 2.25" x 2.5" exposures on 120 rollfilm. Camera uses a B&L Tessar f3.5/75 mm lens and a focal-plane shutter. The series II has cable release, mirror set lever at operator's left of hood and a sliding ruby window cover.

KODAK 35

Item is a 35mm camera with Kodak Anastigmant 50mm f3.5 lens with flash synchrozied shutter

Eastman Kodak Company

The Kodak Photo CD press conference, New York City

Item is a VHS recording of the live press announcement of the Kodak Photo CD System, which was held at the Marriot Marquis in New York City on August 25th, 1992. The event included an outline of the products involved in the system and was hosted by David J Mels (Senior Vice President and Director of Communications and Public Affairs) and Kay R. Whitmore (Chairman, President and Cheif Executive Officer).

Eastman Kodak Company

Betty Burroughs

Item is a publicity portrait print of Betty Burroughs, taken by theatrical photographer Nasib. Inscriptions in white on surface of print read, 'Betty Burroughs' and 'NASIB 7'. Inscription on back in pencil reads 'Betty Burro-' and in purple stamp, 'Wine, Woman and Song' and 'Photo for newspapers only'.

Nasib

Butterfly iceskater

Item is a full length portrait of girl on iceskates wearing a butterfly costume with wings spread. Imprint on surface reads, 'White Studio 48 Broadway, New York.' Inscription in pencil on back reads, '31, 98, 11'

White Studio

Portrait of young boy with stick and hat

Item is a cream cabinet card with scalloped, gold-leafed edges and gold letterpress at bottom, "Goodwin/ EXTRA FINISH/ SYRACUSE, N.Y." Photograph is a full length portrait of a young boy, probably about 5 years old, wearing a lace shirt with dark cuffs and a dark ascot tie, trousers cut off at the knee, and holding a stick in one hand and a hat in another. He sits on the edge of a stone pillar with a background of abstracted leaves for a backdrop. On verso, an etching of a waterfall with the text "Goodwin./ 314 SO SALINA ST/ ART Photography./ INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS". At the top edge, handwritten in ink, "Georgia Wilson".

[Portrait of two women]

Item has a cream card-frame embossed opening, with embossed letters "Potter's Patent March 7 1865." Which is how we dated the tintype. Photograph is a studio portrait of two women, both standing, side by side. Both women wear hats. One on left wears a dark shirtwaist, with a striped full skirt with hair tied neatly back and little bow at the neck. Woman on right has a dark dress, buttons down the front with a small white collar, in fashion in the 1860s. Her hair is shoulder lenght ringlets, also in fashion in the 1860s. Both have pink tinted cheeks.

Annie Deacon

American actress, burlesque performer. She is recorded as having performed in "Our Cinderella: A Burlesque" by William Gill in the Colville Company's 1878-9 season, and in "The Magic Slipper" for Haverley's Theater in New York in August 1879, produced by Samuel Colville's Opera Burlesque Company.

Waters, H.

7 More Wonders of the World, View-master Reel

File contains wheel type stereographs that depict scenes from different locations around the world, captive animals from different lands, performing animals, circuses and events, stories/fairy tales, indigenous peoples. Comes with a form to order more in the series and an order form for all wheels

Seven Wonders of the World, View-master Reel

Item is a set of wheel type stereographs that depict the wonders of the world. Each wheel focuses on a different set of wonders: ancient, modern, or natural and the list describing what each wheel portrays is on the back of the packet. Also comes with a 16 page color illustrated booklet.

Electric view master stereoscope (model D)

Item is a brown handheld electric view master first manufactured by Swayer's Inc and first introduced at the New York World Fair (1939-1940). Once pressed down the lever on the side of the viewer will rotate the reel one frame at a time once pressed. Unlike previous view masters, this view master comes with a built in back light attached to an electrical cord. Once turned on the back light illuminates transparencies on view. Item is made of plastic and metal. Reel has 7 diametrical, 16 mm colour transparencies of The Atlas of Human Anatomy, Head and Neck.

Grand and Central America tour album

Black cover and pages.Album manufactured in New York by F.L. Schafuss & Co. Photographs glued in. Handwritten notations in black ink. Includes panoramic photographs and one navigational chart for sailing. Some loose photographs.

Photographs are travel snapshots from a cruise aboard the S.S. Vigilancia, a steamship that traveled from New York to Vera Cruz, Mexico. There are photographs of the popular sites and activities in Cuba, Bahamas and Mexico, including bullfighting, shoe shining, street scenes, cattle ranches, restaurants, mahogany, rubber, cocoa and banana trees, canoeing, vendors, Pico de Orizaba, markets. cathedrals, monuments, etc.
Other notable photographs are of the interior of The Grand Hotel, Wreck of the USS Maine at Havana, Monument to Cubans executed by the Spanish at Fort Cabana, ox-carts, and horse-drawn trams. Photographs taken at The Sequential Great Bull Fight, Havana. Vera City Mexico, Frontera Tobasco Mexico, Monte Cristo, Balancan, San Carlos, Santa Margarita, Vega Canal, Calle de Mayo and Mexico City.

Chevrolet Toronado (car sub-series)

Glossy gsp, white border. Depicts a car with man and woman standing behind it, outdoors, with a brick wall and trees in the background. Recto caption printed in photograph: "Toronado - A Chevrolet Experiemental Car on Exhibit at General Motors Futurama New York World's Fair." Verso crop lines and inscriptions in pencil. Vero top right: "55/mm-July"; centre: "20 picas"; bottom right: "1186," "36.3," "$15."

Jaguar E-Type Roadster (car sub-series)

Glossy gsp with white border. Side view of a sports car on white studio background. Recto inscription, bottom left, black ink: "2." Verso red ink stamp, top centre: "Please Credit Jaguar Cars Inc. 32 East 57th Street New York 22." Verso inscriptions in green ink- top right: "55/mm-Sept"; centre: cropping marks, 27 1/2 picas"; bottom right: "100 scr. 3inc half." Verso inscriptions in pencil- centre: "23 3/4 R"; bottom right: "$25," "B669."

B.C. Place opening ceremonies

Opening ceremonies for the B.C. Place stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, which was the largest air-supported domed stadium until May 2010 when it was deflated to be replaced by a retractable roof.

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