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"Gift Kodak" camera with original box and packaging
Designed by: Walter Dorwin Teague (American, 1883–1960)
Manufactured by: Kodak Company, Rochester, New York (established 1889)
Manufactured by: Kodak Company, Rochester, New York (established 1889)
1930–31
Object Place: Rochester, New York
Medium/Technique
Leather, enameled metal, camera parts; cedar box with enameled metal decoration; cardboard box
Dimensions
Overall (outer cardboard box): 6.7 x 23.2 x 12.1 cm (2 5/8 x 9 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
Overall (inner wooden box): 6.4 x 22.4 x 11.1 cm (2 1/2 x 8 13/16 x 4 3/8 in.)
Overall (camera): 9.2 x 21 x 4 cm (3 5/8 x 8 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
Overall (inner wooden box): 6.4 x 22.4 x 11.1 cm (2 1/2 x 8 13/16 x 4 3/8 in.)
Overall (camera): 9.2 x 21 x 4 cm (3 5/8 x 8 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The John Axelrod Collection
Accession Number2014.1443.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsTools and equipment
Marks
Plate attached to body of camera:
"NO. 1A GIFT KODAK
MADE IN THE U.S.A. BY
EASTMAN KODAK CO.
ROCHESTER, N.Y."
Stamped into shutter plate:
"SHUTTER MADE IN U.S.A. BY EASTMAN KODAK CO. ROCHESTER, N.Y."
Printed on exterior side of cardboard box:
"1A GIFT
KODAK"
Printed on base of cardboard box:
"MADE IN U.S.A. BY
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
ROCHESTER, N.Y.
TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE
CONTAINER MADE IN U.S.A.
Code 455"
"NO. 1A GIFT KODAK
MADE IN THE U.S.A. BY
EASTMAN KODAK CO.
ROCHESTER, N.Y."
Stamped into shutter plate:
"SHUTTER MADE IN U.S.A. BY EASTMAN KODAK CO. ROCHESTER, N.Y."
Printed on exterior side of cardboard box:
"1A GIFT
KODAK"
Printed on base of cardboard box:
"MADE IN U.S.A. BY
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
ROCHESTER, N.Y.
TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE
CONTAINER MADE IN U.S.A.
Code 455"
ProvenanceBy 1986, owned by Frances W. Cary (dealer), Hollywood, Florida; February 7, 1986, sold by Cary to John Axelrod, Boston, Massachusetts; 2008, promised gift of John Axelrod to the Museum; 2014, gift of Axelrod to the MFA. (Accession date: October 29, 2014)