A Ordinary Kodak

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Company
FABRICATOR: Brownell, Frank
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Ordinary Kodak Model A
SEE ALSO: A Daylight Kodak
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1891
PRODUCTION DATES: 1891-1895
FILM TYPE: A Ordinary rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 2 3/4 x 3¼in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $6.00
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 2050
SERIAL NUMBER RANGE: 210 - 2353
SIGNIFICANT FEATURE: non-leathered wood body
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  box
  string-set
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Single meniscus
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Polished natural wood box; fixed focus; no finder, V sighting lines
  on top; string-set shutter; exposure counter and automatic lock."
  (Coe, 1988).
  According to the Kodak camera production order book, demand for the
  Ordinary Kodaks was not very large, so 150 A Ordinary cameras were
  converted to A Daylight models.
  Serial number range was derived from known cameras compiled by Don
  Ryan as of August 1984.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E129.00002
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 1103

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gibson, Dave & Ryon, Don. --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//
Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. p.24.//