Item No.: 51
Name: Baby Brownie Camera
Model: none
Production Dates: 1934--1941
Original Price: $ 1.00
Film: Roll; No. 127; 1-5/8 x 2-1/2
Lens: Meniscus
Shutter: Eastman Rotary, instant only.
Accessories: with Case = 0.25 uses 24 mm lens and filter attachments.
Condition: Excellent
Donor: Norwood Teague
Picture 1: digital photo
Picture 2: with Case
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Remarks: with Patent for Shutter, No. 1,997,331, applied for
July 18, 1934, granted on April 9, 1935 to Carl C. Fuerst assignor
to Eastman Kodak Company. with Patent for Body, No. 2,000,588, applied
for August 11, 1934, granted on May 7, 1935 to Carl C. Fuerst assignor
to Eastman Kodak Company.
Have INSTRUCTION MANUAL.
Comments: This camera has a two-part, patented plastic body.
It is the first of a long line of cameras designed from scratch by
the Walter Dorwin Teague and Associates industrial design office for
the Eastman Kodak Company over more than three decades. Teague had
been face-lifting for Kodak from 1928 with the Colored Boxes, Beau
Brownies and the Art Deco faces.
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