Kodak Brownie
The box camera that cost a dollar in 1900 – photography for everyone, children included.
Kodak launched the Brownie in 1900 and aimed it at children. It cost a dollar and the film was cheap. The advertising showed the little figures called brownies, after which the camera was named.
The camera turned photography into a popular pastime. The Brownie name was used for many models until the 1980s.
Materials: Card covered with imitation leather, wood, simple lens
Manufacture: Mass-produced by Eastman Kodak in Rochester; designed by Frank Brownell.
A simple box with fixed focus and a single shutter speed.
Roll film loaded in the dark and handed in for developing.
Model names such as No. 2 Brownie and patent dates on the camera.