Kodak Baby Brownie Special Camera
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950s
name: label: maker
content: Eastman Kodak Company
notes: label: Description
content: Popular from the 1939 World’s Fair into the 1950s, the Kodak Baby Brownie Special was a small black camera made of bakelite, with white shutter button and winding knob and featuring a braided strap. With a rigid view finder and focus-free lens, it produced eight 3¼ x 3 inch photographs from 127 film.
label: Description
content: From its invention in 1839, the camera has evolved to fit many needs, from aerial to underwater photography and everything in between. Cameras allow both amateur and professional photographers to capture the world around us. The Smithsonian’s historic camera collection includes rare and unique examples as well as popular models.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of August W. Heubner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0007.04
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0007.04
label: accession number
content: 1979.0007
label: catalog number
content: 79.007.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: camera
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 cm x 9.5 cm x 8 cm; 3 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in