North and Central America

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1000001 Map of North and Central America

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North and Central America

  • UF North America
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North and Central America

217 Archival description results for North and Central America

No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak, Model H

Item is a 3A Folding Pocket Kodak, model H, one of Eastman Kodak's first postcard format cameras. Made for use with rolls of 122 film it created 3 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch postcard format images. It has an automatic shutter equipped with a pneumatic release (no longer attached). It could also be adapted to take photographs on glass plates. It is a medium sized folding camera with black leather casing and red leather bellows, metal clasps and metal/wooden slide.Heritage Collection: Medium sized camera, black leather casing and red leather bellows, metal clasps and slide.

Eastman Kodak Company

No. 2C Autographic Kodak Junior

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.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

No. 3-A Autographic Kodak Junior

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.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Rainbow Hawk-Eye No. 2, Model C

Item is a large sized box camera made for use with 120 rollfilm. Features two prism viewfinders and simple meniscus lens. It has has cardboard body with black leatherette, but was manufactured in different colours, including red, blue, brown, maroon, green and burgundy.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Senior Six-16

Item is a medium sized camera with black casing and black cloth bellows, metal clasps. It took 8 exposures on 616 film to make a picture size of 2 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. It features a Kodak Anastigmat f7.7 128mm lens and a Kodak Kodex No. 1 shutter. It has a folding viewfinder, knurled winding knob and a shutter release on the side.

Eastman Kodak Company

Vigilant Six-20

Item is a medium format camera with large bulb flash attachment, black casing and bellows, metal clasps and folding viewfinder. Originally sold for US $38, it was made for use with 620 film and features a body similar to cameras of the Kodak Monitor series.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Baby Brownie Special

Item is a small brownie eyelevel rollfilm camera with a black, moulded plastic body and a braided carrying strap. It is considered to be an upgrade from the Baby Brownie because of its direct optical viewfinder and easy-to-use shutter release. Originally sold for US $1.00, it used 127 film and had a meniscus lens and rotary shutter.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Duex

Item is a medium format hand held box camera built of black plastic and metal case. It features a Kodak Duex lens, black plastic winding knob and raised viewfinder. Strap attached. Made for use with 620 film.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Vigilant Junior Six-20

Item is a folding camera with black casing, black leather bellows and metal clasps. It is a smaller model of the Vigilant Junior Six-16, and similar to the Kodak Vigilant Six-20 but with a simpler lens and shutter.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Brownie Flash Six-20

Item is a flash synchronized version of the Kodak Six-20 Brownie Special. Originally the Kodak Six-20 Flash Brownie when introduced in 1940, it was renamed Brownie Flash Six-20 in 1946. It is an eyelevel rollfilm camera with a sheet metal body and black leather casing, made for use with 620 film. Includes large flashgun attachment still mounted to body.

Eastman Kodak Company

Brownie Bull's-Eye

Item is a small metal and black bakelite camera with Kodak Twindar Lens and settings indicated for scenes, groups or individuals. Made for use with Kodak 620 film, it features an eye-level viewfinder and a shutter release button on the front side, in front of the winding knob. It was also made in beige from 1958-1960.

Eastman Kodak Company

Pony 135, Model C

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.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Signet 50 with flash attachment

Item is a viewfinder camera with black bakelite body, metal fittings and large attached flash. It is the fourth model in the Kodak Signet line, featuring a selenium photocell exposure meter. Featuring an Ektanar lens with thorium oxide, the camera is slightly radioactive.

Eastman Kodak Company

Instamatic 714

Item is a small 126 cartridge rangefinder camera with a black plastic and metal body, equipped with Kodak Ektar f/2.8 38mm lens containing thorium oxide, a radioactive material. One of the least common Instamatic models, it is similar the the Kodak Instamatic 814 in that it is heavy and features the same lens and shutter.

Eastman Kodak Company

Brownie Super 27

Item is a plastic camera with black leatherette casing and metal fittings. It features a Kodar lens f8 with settings for close-ups and distance. Flash socket behind latched door on left side of camera (no bulb included). Strap attached.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Ektralite 30

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".

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Instamatic X-35F

Similar to the Instamatic X-35, this small hand held camera has black moulded plastic casing meant to look like leatherette, and two brown faux leather panel details on the front on either side of lens. A bright red plate above lens reads "KODAK / INSTAMATIC X-35F". A switch at the top indicates the two Kodar lens focus settings for "beyond 6 feet" or "2 to 6 feet". Fitted with a Flipflash socket. Kodak wrist strap attached. Manufactured for the Canadian market, 'camera' is written on the nameplate in English and in French. Made for use with 126 cartridge film.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Instamatic 314

Item is a small automatic exposure camera with leatherette and metal case and a Kodar lens. Lens can be adjusted at the top with a switch that indicates to the user "beyond 6 feet" or "2 to 6 feet", allowing for relatively close-up photography. Wrist strap attached. Made for use with 126 cartridge film and flashcubes.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Instamatic 174

Item is a small, fixed-focus, snapshot camera with metal and black leatherette casing and tan bakelite accent around the front panel. It features a large winding knob on top left. that when would would automatically load the film to the first frame. Made for use with 126 cartridge film, this camera has a facility for flashcubes.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Brownie Bullet II

Item is a small point-and-shoot camera with a black plastic body and metal fittings. An upgraded model of the Brownie Starlet without flash facilities, this camera features a large eyelevel viewfinder, Dakon lens and rotary shutter. Wrist strap attached. Switch at bottom front indicates use with either colour or b&w 127 film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Pony 828

Item is a small, handheld camera with a black faux leather and grey Bakelite body and metal fittings. It used 828 format roll film (developed by Kodak in 1935 and similar in size to 135 film, without sprocket holes) to make 8 exposures. The camera features a simple viewfinder, 51mm f 4.5 Kodak Anaston Lens and a four speed Kodak Flash 200 Shutter. This item features the unusual occurence of a green window on the back to read numbers of coloured film. Serial no. 225134.

Eastman Kodak Company

Instamatic 134

Item is a simple snapshot camera with a black plastic imitation leather body, metal fittings and a light tan plastic accent border around faceplate. Made for use with 126 cartridge film, the Instamatic 134 features an electronic exposure control and a flashcube facility. It has an f/11, 43mm lens and a shutter speed of 1/50 sec. Wrist strap attached.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Instamatic 44

Styled similarly to the Hawkeye Instamatic II, this basic snapshot camera has a flashcube socket. This all-black model was the lowest-price Instamatic produced by Kodak, and the first Kodak to be "carded" for self-service sales. A similar camera, with no flashcube socket, was produced in Brazil as the Instamatic 11. It features an f/11 lens and 1/50 shutter. Made for use with 126 cartridge film. Raised metal text on front reads "MADE IN CANADA".

Kodak Canada Inc.

Pony 135

Item consists of a small hand-held camera with Kodak Anaston Lens f4.5 (51mm), and Flash 200 shutter. Grey bakelite, faux black leather and metal casing. Serial no. 313297. Designed for 35mm film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Vigilant Junior Six-20

Item consists of a folding black camera with black bellows, black plastic body, and black handle. Includes a tripod mount, folding frame finder on the body, and another optical finder near the shutter. Kodet lens with Dak shutter. "Kodak Vigilant Junior six-20 Made in Canada by Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont."

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Hawkeye Flash Fun

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.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Duaflex II

Item is a small, hand held camera in black plastic casing, oriented vertically with mirror reflector viewfinder with finder hood on top of camera. Kodak lens f8 (72mm). Used Kodak Verichrome Plus X films and produced a 6x6 picture. Pictograms on bottom help user to set the best shutter speed for certain weather conditions.

Eastman Kodak Company

Duaflex IV

Item is a fixed-focus medium-format camera with Kodet Lens and Kodalite Flashholder (bulb flash). Body is brown ("chocolate") with brown neck strap. The styling is of a twin-lens reflex camera, but the viewing screen is for framing purposes only. Uses type 620 format film, not 120. Almost identical to the Duaflex III except for the two-tone brown finish and restyled front plate.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

No. 2C Autographic Kodak Jr. Model A

Item consists of a large format film folding bed camera, built for use with Kodak No. 1A 130 Autographic roll film cartridges to make a picture of 7 x 12 cm. The body is built of aluminum with seal grain leather covering. Fitted with a meniscus achromatic lens and Kodak Ball Bearing Shutter.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Star 110

Item is a simple snapshot camera with a built-in electronic flash. It has a small, thin horizontal design with black plastic body and flashcube on right. Film-wind wheel centrally mounted on the back of the camera. Comes in original orange plastic packaging (unopened) with a roll of 110 film and 2 AAA batteries.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Pocket Instamatic 60 camera outfit

Item is a small silver and black compact camera with flash cubes (magi-cubes). Includes a tripod mount and cable release. Automatic shutter and coupled rangefinder. Uses 110 cartridge film. In orginal box, with flash cube, leather case and black wrist strap.

Eastman Kodak Company

Hawkeye 8 Movie Camera

Item consists of a Kodak Hawkeye 8 Movie Camera. The camera was patented by Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, and was made by Canadian Kodak Co. Limited. It has a Kodak Ektanar Lens 13m f/2.3 and is made of plastic. It used 8mm film and was sold for 19.99 when released in 1963.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

FunSaver 35

Item consists of a disposable camera for Outdoor Only loaded with a 24 exposure roll of Kodacolor Gold 400 ISO 35mm film for colour prints. New in box. Develop before date is July 1996.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Ektra 1 outfit

Item is a small camera with a rectagular body made of black plastic and a green #1 on the top. Made for use with 110 cartridge film, it is a basic camera with fixed focus and a flipflash connector. Made for the Canadian market, this camera is labelled in French and English, and reads "appareil Kodak EKTRA camera" in silver above the green #1. Camera is in original packaging (opened) with roll of 110 film, instruction booklet and strap included.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Emulsion kettle

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".

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak for Kids Microscope Set

Item is a Kodak for Kids Microscope Set made by Tyco. It is a 54 piece kit that includes 1 clear petri dish with lid, 2 clear plastic vials (1 is missing), a spatula, tweezers, a stirring rod, 6 glass slides (4 are missing), 3 prepared slides (1 is missing), 12 cover glasses, 12 statical covers, 12 blank labels, a microscope with 25x to 100x magnification and instructions in both french and english. In original packaging.

Kodak Canada Inc.

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

No. 2A Brownie

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.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

No. 1A Pocket Kodak

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.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Kodak Junior Six-16

Item is a medium folding camera made for use with 616 film rolls. with black casing, black leather bellows, and metal clasps. Although there are variations of this camera under the same name, built in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, this Canadian made Kodak Junior Six-16 most resembles the American version, featuring a Kodak Anastigmat lens, a No. 1 Kodex shutter, and an octagonal art deco design on the lens face.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

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

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.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Brownie Target Six-16

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.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

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

Brownie Starflash

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.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Brownie Fiesta R4

Item is a small eyelevel camera built of two shades of moulded grey plastic. For use with 127 roll film, it features an optical direct viewfinder and a meniscus f/11 lens. It is thought to be the last roll-film camera to be manufactured by Kodak.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Tele-Instamatic 608

Item is a small rectangular camera with a black plastic body. It features a silver name plate. Made for use with 110 film, it features a fixed focus 25mm lensand conveniently fits into your pocket, with no batteries required.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

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 X

Item is a small hand held camera with a dark green plastic body and metal fittings (the green is mottled to look like leatherette). Made for use with 126 cartridge film, the camera is fitted with a tripod socket and features a fixed focus lens and two speed shutter. Flash facility is available for use of Magicubes.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Instamatic 400

Item is a small hand held camera similar to the Instamatic 300, with black plastic body and metal fittings. It has a large winding knob on top left for the clockwork film advance motor. Pop-up facility for flashcubes on right, Kodar lens f/8, 41mm, and wrist strap attached. Used AAA batteries and 126 cartridge film. Serial no. 091073.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

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

Kodak Pony II

Item is a small hand held camera with a black plastic body and metal fittings, a Kodak Anastar Lens f3.9 ( 44mm) and a single shutter speed. A plaque on verso indicates correct exposures for certain weather conditions for Kodacolor film in place of traditional f/stops that slides out to be interchangeable with other exposure guides. On top, handwritten in pencil on the metal casing reads: "36". Made for use with Kodak 135 film. Serial no. 488071.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

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