Kodak No.1A Folding Pocket Model C bed-type folding roll-film camera. 1524471.1

Kodak No.1A Folding Pocket Model C bed-type folding roll-film camera.

Eastman Kodak Co

Fox Talbot Museum, Fenton Collection © National Trust / Clive James and Rod Stowell

Date

1905 - 1912

Materials

Metal, Leather, Glass

Measurements

Closed size 198 x 98 x 44 mm

Place of origin

Rochester, NY

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Collection

Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire

NT 1524471.1

Summary

Kodak No.1A Folding Pocket Model C bed-type folding roll-film camera. Camera has metal body covered with black leather and metal fixings and details. Bellows are maroon leather (this dates the camera to between 1905-1912, after which bellows were black). Markings: shutter - "Pocket Automatic Made by Eastman Kodak Co Rochester NY USA". Metal plate on the standard inscribed: "No.1A Folding Pocket Kodak made in USA by 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

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