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Pocket Premo C, 1904 - 1916

 Item
Identifier: 2008-027-1-26-11

Scope and Contents

Self-erecting, folding-bed plate camera; meniscus achromatic lens; Kodak ball bearing shutter; 8.5x15 cm image. Red bellows; camerain very poor shape; probably manufactured before 1907. (McKeown, p. 516)

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1904 - 1916

Creator

Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader.

Biographical / Historical

Most of the cameras made by Kodak under the Premo trademark after 1907 were film pack models.--Coe, p.296.

Biographical / Historical

The Pony Premo C is a folding bed camera. It has a brilliant finder. The images show versions with simple Kodak shutter with modes T, B and I. Others have a similar Bausch and Lomb shutter. The lens may have been be a f8 Rapid Rectilinear. It makes 3¼ × 4¼ inch exposures on pack film.

Extent

1 item (1 camera) : metal, glass, wood, leather ; 5.5 X 18 X 12 cm

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives Repository

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