Item No.: 1
Name: Brownie Camera
Model: Original
Production Dates: 1900* --1900*
Original Price: $ 1.00
Film: Roll; No. 117 (new film size); 2-1/4 x 2-1/4
Lens: Meniscus
Shutter: Eastman Rotary
Accessories: Have NSTRUCTION MANUAL March 1900, with corrections
for the Improved Model.
Condition: Good
Donor: Norwood Teague
Picture 1: digital photo
Picture 2: digital photo
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Remarks: Cardboard Body (wood reinforced) with Slip On (shoe
box top type) back. Paper Film = $0.10 and Negative Film = $0.15 ---
six exposures.
* Produced from Feb to April or May of 1900. Do not have Patent for
Shutter, No. 622,955 of April 11, 1899 granted to Frederich H. Kelly
of Providence, RI.
Comments: The name "BROWNIE, most probably came from the very popular illustrated poems and stories by Palmer Cox using figures called "Brownies."
Frank A. Brownell, cabinet maker, designed, built and assembled cameras solely for Eastman from the mid- 1880's to about 1902 and continued to design cameras on into the Teen's.
The advertisement to the right is one of the very few that had the Original Model illustrated, probably because more lead time was required for some of the magazines.
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