Background Information
Kodak Brownie Online Archive
UCR/California Museum of Photography has one of the finest collections of Eastman Kodak Brownie cameras and apparatus in the country. This collection also includes Instruction Manuals and a significant number of Brownie advertisements. UCR/CMP's Bingham Technology and Camera Collection contains approximately 10,000 cameras and devices. A portion of collection contains the Kodak Brownie Cameras originally donated by Robert Bingham and have been augmented by acquisitions and the generous donations of Norwood Teague. The online archive contains approximately 150 Kodak Brownies to date with additions made periodically. The process of photographing the archive began in the Summer of 2004 by Reidun Montaville and was catalogued by Leigh Engel in the Fall of 2005. The goal of this archive is to produce a encyclopedic set of the camera that started a “Revolution in a Box”.
An Encyclopedic set of Kodak Brownie Cameras
Norwood Teague deserves credit for assembling one of the finest collections of Brownie cameras in the world. He started collecting while building his California home in Portuguese Bend during the 1950's. Teague was motivated the Brownie’s ‘blue collar’ utility, innovative design and popular appeal. Consequently, his rubric was to collect everything associated with the Brownie line. Teague has even preserved every Brownie advertisement printed within major magazines.
UCR/California Museum of Photography has one of the finest collections of Eastman Kodak Brownie cameras and apparatus in the country. This collection also includes Instruction Manuals and a significant number of Brownie advertisements. UCR/CMP's Bingham Technology and Camera Collection contains approximately 10,000 cameras and devices. A portion of collection contains the Kodak Brownie Cameras originally donated by Robert Bingham and have been augmented by acquisitions and the generous donations of Norwood Teague. The online archive contains approximately 150 Kodak Brownies to date with additions made periodically. The process of photographing the archive began in the Summer of 2004 by Reidun Montaville and was catalogued by Leigh Engel in the Fall of 2005. The goal of this archive is to produce a encyclopedic set of the camera that started a “Revolution in a Box”.
An Encyclopedic set of Kodak Brownie Cameras
Norwood Teague deserves credit for assembling one of the finest collections of Brownie cameras in the world. He started collecting while building his California home in Portuguese Bend during the 1950's. Teague was motivated the Brownie’s ‘blue collar’ utility, innovative design and popular appeal. Consequently, his rubric was to collect everything associated with the Brownie line. Teague has even preserved every Brownie advertisement printed within major magazines.