A No.4 Folding Kodak Model B camera.
Eastman Kodak Co
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1909 - 1913
Materials
Metal, Leather, Brass, Wood, Glass
Measurements
288 x 164 x 272 mm Extended
Place of origin
Rochester
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524451
Summary
A Kodak No.4 Folding camera Model B with a Kodak lens and Kodak Unicum shutter. The camera is metal bodied covered in black leather. The bellows are red leather. The camera bed has polished wood insets . The lens is brass and nickel/chrome. Other fittings are nickel/chrome. Markings: inside back cover reads No.4 A Folding Kodak Model B and states patents. Also by hand in pencil, use film no. 126. Inside, the distance plate is writtten in black ink and states use film no. 126.. Manufacturer's plate above shutter reads Rochester camera Co, and manufacturer's plate on camera bed reads Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY.
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