No.1A Speed Kodak folding rollfilm camera.
Eastman Kodak Co
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1909 - 1913
Materials
Leather, Glass, Velvet
Measurements
Closed 122 x 256 x 57 mm
Place of origin
United States
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524434.1
Summary
No.1A Speed Kodak folding rollfilm camera. Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar f/6.3. Metal body covered with black leather. Black leather handle. Centre of base plate is covered in black velvet. Bellows black leather. Markings: Metal plate on back of camera: "Sands, Hunter & Co, 37 Bedford Street, Strand, London, WC2" (Retailers) Stamped inside back cover: "No.1A Speed Kodak", list of patents; "Manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY, USA" Metal plate on top: "1A Speed Kodak made by Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY, USA"
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Eastman Kodak Co , manufacturer