326. The Kodak Camera

The Eastman Dry Plate & Film Co., the first model, box-form camera for 100 exposures, 2 1/2" diameter, on 2 3/4" wide roll flim, 9/57mm lens in rotating horizontal cylinder shutter, T and instantaneous, shutter cocked by pulling string on the top of the camera. With felt lens plug, original leather case, The Kodak Manual, May 1889, Memorandum of Kodak Exposures booklet, Memorandum of Kodak Exposures card, all in original wooden box with label. With two photographs taken with a Kodak camera. Designed by George Eastman, Rochester, N.Y. (U.S. Patent 388,850, September 4, 1888). Manufactured by Frank Brownell, Rochester, for The Eastman Dry Plate & Film Co. Production started for the original Kodak camera in June of 1888. The camera was put on the market in August with the slogan “You press the button, we do the rest." Original list price was $25.00, including film, leather case, and booklet for recording exposures. One of the most important cameras in the history of photography. Illustrated in "The History of Photography as seen through the Spira Collection", page 101.

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