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Date
1914 – 1930
Material
cardboard, metal, glass
Catalogue Number
104.41.1054
Description
Six-16 Brownie Junior box camera; metal face plate with make and model written; depression in centre for internal lens; 2 viewfinder lenses above lens; viewfinder window beside carrying strap on top; pull out aperture selector; viewfinder window; shutter release; film advance, right side; red film …
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Title
Box Camera
Date
1914 – 1930
Material
cardboard, metal, glass
Dimensions
14.2 x 13.9 x 9.1 cm
Description
Six-16 Brownie Junior box camera; metal face plate with make and model written; depression in centre for internal lens; 2 viewfinder lenses above lens; viewfinder window beside carrying strap on top; pull out aperture selector; viewfinder window; shutter release; film advance, right side; red film frame window at back; textured black leatherette covers body.
Subject
photography
Credit
Gift of Robert N. Smith, Canmore, 1985
Catalogue Number
104.41.1054
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Date
1914
Material
wood, paperboard, glass, metal
Catalogue Number
104.41.1040
Description
Kodak box camera with case; regular box camera; body made of cardboard with wood back and front; holein front is lens and shutter, 2 windows top corner for viewfinders top andside; 2 pull posts, one for aperture, other to keep shutter open; shutterrelease on right hand side, along with film advance…
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Title
Box Camera
Date
1914
Material
wood, paperboard, glass, metal
Dimensions
17.1 x 14.3 x 11.0 cm
Description
Kodak box camera with case; regular box camera; body made of cardboard with wood back and front; holein front is lens and shutter, 2 windows top corner for viewfinders top andside; 2 pull posts, one for aperture, other to keep shutter open; shutterrelease on right hand side, along with film advance knob; round amber window in back; back detached; cardboard box covered with cloth; flap comes over toplatches at clip which has "Brownie" in fancy letters, also has a leather strapon the case.
Subject
photography
Hubert Green
Credit
Gift of Hubert E. Green Jr., Banff, 1986
Catalogue Number
104.41.1040
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Date
1840 – 1850
Material
wood; glass; metal
Catalogue Number
104.41.0005 a,b
Description
(a) Large dark brown wooden box camera which is constructed so that back half of camera slides into front half to focus and is secured in place by means of a brass thumbscrew into a slot in the base. Large brass lens screwed over aperture hole at centre of front side of wooden box, square glass pla…
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Title
Box Camera
Date
1840 – 1850
Material
wood; glass; metal
Dimensions
25.2 x 24.0 x 42.3 cm
Description
(a) Large dark brown wooden box camera which is constructed so that back half of camera slides into front half to focus and is secured in place by means of a brass thumbscrew into a slot in the base. Large brass lens screwed over aperture hole at centre of front side of wooden box, square glass plate set into wooden frame slides into slot at back of camera. (b) a separate plateholder of the same size has hinged door on back of frame which opens to insert black metal film sheath (Eastman Kodak), and front of frame slides out by pulling on metal ring at top to expose film. Note: wood cracking and separated at joints, chipped at lower front corners with large chunk of wood out of lower right, plateholder cracked across door and on one side of top.
Subject
households
hobbies
photography
J.D. Curren
PW
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.41.0005 a,b
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Date
1915 – 1922
Material
wood; leatherette; glass; metal
Catalogue Number
104.41.1202
Description
Black wood box covered in leatherette and metal hardware. Missing handle at the top, two view finders (standard on box cameras) one landscape and one portrait. Four visible aperture settings on the shutter. Two other holes in the top left of the front of the camera.
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Title
Box Camera
Date
1915 – 1922
Material
wood; leatherette; glass; metal
Dimensions
16.5 x 12.5 x 17 cm
Description
Black wood box covered in leatherette and metal hardware. Missing handle at the top, two view finders (standard on box cameras) one landscape and one portrait. Four visible aperture settings on the shutter. Two other holes in the top left of the front of the camera.
Credit
Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2017
Catalogue Number
104.41.1202
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