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take a picture: Camera ads and ephemera

Ads about Kodak and other analog picture making devises.

Kodak: 1935 is at her fingertips

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they all remembered the kodak

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Clarence Underwood. The Ladies’ World (cover)

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Camera Comics No. 4, , 1944 From Project B, vintage photographs and other curiosities from Barbara Levine via www.projectb.com/.... (For repins please keep links and sources)

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Product Speed Kodak, No. 4A Country Life in America B/W Drawing Kodak 1909 library.duke.edu/...

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1898 Truth Magazine cover Caption reads, "That's so! There is no Kodak but Eastman Kodak." From the amazing website "The KodakGirlcollection. www.kodakgirl.com/

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Johann George van Caspel 1899

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View-Master

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Party with Kodak!

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1924 ad for the Brownie Gift Box

Kodak Brownie camera instruction booklet

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Photograph printing ephemera,

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"The Kodak Girl" - 1902 sheet music, March and Two-Step composed by William T. Cramer dedicated to the Eastman Kodak Company. Illustration shows an early version of the "Kodak Girl," who was an important part of Kodak advertising for over a hundred years.

The Kodak Girl was introduced by George Eastman of Kodak circa 1910 as a way of marketing Kodak cameras to fashionable independent young women. Kodak Girl adverts can usually be identified by the stripey blue dress she wore and the Kodak in her hands.

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Kodak Girl in a striped ski jacket. NOV 1955.

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Kodak. Magazine insert on card stock

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French poster by R. LeLong with Danish slogan, "You Never Forget What Your Kodak Remembers"

February 17, 1909. "No. 28 -- The Kodak Girl.

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Kodak Girl. Australasian Photographic Review, 23 January 1911. A 770.5 AU7P v. 18

Kodak, 1913. Detail from French poster.

This Kodak poster by René Lelong c.1925. 37 3/4 x 59 3/4 inches. The large posters are extremely difficult to find.

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Midget Coronet Camera Ad 1938

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There's a story at your house that KODAK can tell. 1923

Kodak as you go 1923

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In 1916, when this Kodak catalog was published, women were depicted as photographers rather than subjects.

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Kodak 1903. Illustration by Edward Penfield.

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American inventor George Eastman (1854-1932) was instrumental in fostering the growth of amateur photography. He built a factory in Rochester, New York in 1880 and began manufacturing his photographic inventions in large numbers. In 1892, he founded the Eastman Kodak Company, one of the first American companies to mass-produce standardized photographic products for commercial sale. Eastman's most notable inventions include the Kodak camera and roll film (1899) and a color photography process (1928).

In "The Bradys' Snap Shot Clew" (Secret Service, Nov. 16, 1906), the detectives head for the darkroom to develop a photograph as evidence for their case. As Old King Brady holds up the photograph for inspection, a hooded villain enters the darkroom and attempts to destroy it. A similar motif appears in an earlier issue of Secret Service, in which a young woman is stopped just as she is about to destroy the photographic evidence of her criminal activity.

In 1916, when this Kodak catalog was published, women were depicted as photographers rather than subjects.

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Film wallets were used by photo finishers as sleeves for prints and negatives. This one shows a woman taking a picture of a little girl

Kodak instruction booklets were often pitched directly to young girls

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Young women snapping photos of Lake Champlain. Detail from 1906 postcard. Cowan ephemera collections.

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