Item is a compact camera built of black plastic with black leather bellows and metal clasps. It was made for use with 828 film and features a Kodak Anastigmat f6.3 53mm lens and a rigid viewfinder.
Item is a leatherette covered folding camera for exposures on 120 film. Originally designed and produced by the Boston Camera Company, Hawk-Eye camera production changed hands twice, once in 1890 when sold to the Blair Camera Company, then again in 1907, when Eastman Kodak purchased the company. Simple lens and rotary shutter. Black leather body and bellows.
Item is a folding camera for 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. exposure on A116 film. The Autographic feature allowed notes to be made on the film by scratching them into the film paper with a special stylus. A window opened in the back of the camera to expose the backing paper. Has a Kodak F-79 lens, black leather casing and bellows, metal clasps and slide.
Item is a large format folding bed camera with black leather casing and bellows, metal clasps and slide. It takes postcard size images with a Ball Bearing Shutter No. 2 and f7.7 Kodak Anastigmat lens. Features included adjustable focus with automatic focusing lock, reversible finder and two tripod sockets.
Item is a medium sized brownie camera, black leather casing and bellows. Metal clasps and slide. Equipped with Kodak Ball bearing shutter. Made for use with 120 Autographic film.
Item is a medium sized brownie camera with black leather casing and bellows, made for use with 116 roll film. Metal clasps and slide. Equipped with Kodak Ball bearing shutter with an additional 1/100s speed for "moving objects".
Item is a No. 3A Autographic Kodak, Model C. It was manufactured from 1903-1912 with red bellows and 1912-1915 with black bellows, this item features black. Made for use with rolls of 122 film it created 3 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch postcard format images. It has black leather casing, metal clasps and slides.
Item is a No. 2C Kodak Junior, made for use with the No. A-130 autographic film cartridge and capable of taking 10 exposures. It is a large sized camera with black leather casing and bellows, metal clasps and slide. It was originally priced at $27.00.
Item is a small automatic camera with a moulded black plastic body and metal fittings. Made for use with 127 roll film, it was the first automatic Brownie camera and a high end model of the Kodak Brownie Star series. It features a Kodar lens f/8 and an instant shutter setting, as well as a dial to select exposure with an Automatic Exposure option. It allows for the selection of film speed value to be selected in ASA and a reading to notify the photographer if flash is necessary. Because of these features, the popular photo sharing app "Starmatic" for Apple iPhone was named after this camera.
Item is a basic 12 exposure snapshot camera featuring a built-in flashgun for AG-1 bulbs. This camera shows a family resemblance to the Brownie Fiesta, with beige (wheat) and red (sienna) plastic body and black neck strap. Uses 127 film. Film left in camera.
Item is an eyelevel rollfilm camera with medium sized flash, built of a black plastic body and metal fittings. Part of the Kodak Brownie Star series, the camera was also made in red, blue and white, as well as in a special rwo-tone version with a Coca-Cola logo.
Item is a pseudo twin lens reflex camera with flashgun attachment. It has a black plastic body with metal faceplate and fittings and was made for use with 127 rollfilm. It has a Dakon lens with a simpler folding finder, as well as an additional sports finder built into the base.
Item is a box rollfilm camera made for use with 616 film. It features a meniscus lens and a rotary shutter. It has am metal body with black leatherette and a vertical art deco design on the front panel. It has 2 brilliant viewfinders and was originally sold for $4.00.
Item is a box camera made for use with Kodak 120 film. It resembles a Kodak No. 2A Brownie, model B, but was made in Canada. Small hand held box style camera in classic leatherette casing. With leather strap on top.
Item is a small rectangular camera with a black plastic body, flip out lens, and a 22mm f/5.6 lens. Made for the Canadian market, it reads "appareil Kodak EKTRALITE camera" beside a silver on green number "30".
Item consists of a small format camera. 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.
A commemorative DVD produced by Kodak Canada Ltd. for employees during the final days of the Kodak Heights operations. The DVD celebrates the employees of Kodak Heights in Toronto upon the closing of the plant in 2005. Four films on the disc include events and speeches from the June 30th, 2005 employee day, interviews and photographs of Kodak Heights employees.
Item is a 48 gallon copper kettle with a silver-plated liner. It was installed in building #3 of the Kodak Heights plant in 1915 for making photographic emulsion for black and white paper and was used until 1974. The kettle was used to make the first photographic emulsion produced in Canada and was referred to as the "making kettle".
Sub-series illustrates the production history of the Kodak company's commercial camera production. The collection represents all major styles of medium and small format cameras produced by the company and consists of 171 plate and film cameras, including; box cameras, folding cameras, disposable cameras, range finder cameras, single-lens reflex cameras, twin-lens reflex cameras, ciné cameras, and digital cameras. The cameras are organized chronologically.
Collection contains publications from Kodak Canada Ltd. including a catalogue of Kodak products. a Kodak Canada notebook and an employee recruitment publication.