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- Description
- Part A is a small green camera with green bellows. It has a foot on the front to allow it to stand up on a flat surface. "KODAK Petite" is on the front in stylized letters.
Part B is a soft leather case. It is dark grey leather with a yellow tinge and a snap clasp.
Part C is a small instructional…
- Title
- Kodak Petite
- Brand Name
- Kodak
- Manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Company
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR COMMUNICATION
- Sub-Category
- PHOTOGRAPHIC TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
- Start Date
- 1929
- End Date
- 1933
- Description
- Part A is a small green camera with green bellows. It has a foot on the front to allow it to stand up on a flat surface. "KODAK Petite" is on the front in stylized letters.
Part B is a soft leather case. It is dark grey leather with a yellow tinge and a snap clasp.
Part C is a small instructional booklet with a gold cover titled "Picture Taking with the Kodak Petite"
Parts D & E are a cardboard box. It is yellow with green geometric shapes and says "KODAK Petite" on one side.
- History Of Use
- The Kodak Petite was made from 1929 to 1933. It was a Vest Pocket Kodak Model B which used 127 film and came in five colors including blue, green, gray, lavender, and old rose with matching coloured bellows. Several special versions were also made with special art-deco patterns on the front door including the step-pattern and diamond-door versions.
A Kodak advertisement appearing in Ladies’ Home Journal’s April 1930 issue described the camera as:
Gay as seventeen…feminine as Eve…smart as an Easter hat…is this exquisite Eastman creation. Paris inspired, it reflects the mode of spring. Aptly named, Kodak Petite is a lovely little camera no larger than your hand.
Like all members of the famed Kodak family, it takes wonderful pictures…clean-cut, sparkling. And, so easily…you simply press a lever.
On Easter, when you stroll about in a world that’s fresh from Fashion’s easel, take this dainty camera with you. You’ll not only add some remarkably good snapshots to your album, but you’ll add a bit of subtle flattery to your costume.
Kodak’s Petite, with neatly patterned cases to match, come in five alluring colors- a sparkling green, a warm gray, a delicate lavender, a robin’s egg blue, and a rich old rose.
Picture size is 13/8 × 2½”. Price, with case to match, $7.50.
See Kodak Petite at any Kodak dealer’s.
Found small green sticky note inside case - likely from whoever that first accessioned the camera - which reads "Presented as birthday gift to donor's mom in 1931 circa(?)." Disposed of sticky note because looks like Betty wrote it. - this last note by Eric Holdijk
- Number Of Parts
- 4
- Accession No.
- 2013.24.117 a-e
- Model Name or No.
- Petite
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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