A Kodak Girl Scout folding roll-film camera 1524624.1

A Kodak Girl Scout folding roll-film camera

Eastman Kodak Co

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

Date

1929 - 1934

Materials

Metal, Leather, Glass

Measurements

Closed 63 x 123 x 25 mm

Place of origin

Rochester

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Collection

Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire

NT 1524624.1

Summary

A Kodak Girl Scout folding roll-film camera. With metal parts enameled in dark green with official Girl Scout of America emblem engraved on the bed. Camera has metal body covered with green mock leather and metal details and fixings and with rounded ends. Bellows are of green paper. There are no markings on inside of camera.

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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Record Status

Enhanced

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