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Camera
- Description
- Camera is small, and mostly black with a silver front for the lens and flash. It has a long strap affixed to the sides. "Brownie" is on the front in stylized red font.
- Title
- Kodak Brownie Target Six-16
- Brand Name
- Kodak
- Brownie
- Manufacturer
- Kodak
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR COMMUNICATION
- Sub-Category
- PHOTOGRAPHIC TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
- Start Date
- 1933
- End Date
- 1940
- Description
- Camera is small, and mostly black with a silver front for the lens and flash. It has a long strap affixed to the sides. "Brownie" is on the front in stylized red font.
- History Of Use
- The Six-16 Brownie was produced in the United States between 1933 and 1940. It had an art deco faceplate and a two position focus with an auxiliary lens. This camera was particularly interesting because of its unusual film size. After producing no new film sizes for 16 years, Kodak introduced two relatively short lived film sizes in 1932: the 620 and 616. The films were designed to replace earlier sizes, however the other sizes had become so well used around the world that they failed to ignite the photographic world and had all but disappeared by the beginning of the 1940s. The original price of the camera was $5.25.
- Accession No.
- 2013.24.119
- Model Name or No.
- Six-16
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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