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(KODAK) Family photo album entitled "Kodak," with 102 original photographs, on 13 leaves, using the first Kodak box camera. The pictures feature Belle DuBois, a fashionably attired young woman, in addition to family members, friends and neighbors, scenes of the town and interiors of the DuBois home. Printing-out-paper prints mounted recto/verso, image area 2 1/2 inches (6.3 cm.) in diameter, sheet size 4x3 1/4 inches (10.1x82 cm.). Small folio, gilt-lettered cloth, soiled; contents generally bright; ties. 1888
Railroad signage identifies the town as Highgate Springs, a pastoral burg where neighbors congregate at L.A.H. Hoogle's and Son's store and men display their catches of fish. Women holding parasols stroll about while picnicking families stop and take time to pose for the camera. Cute canines are also very much in evidence.
Invented by George Eastman, who sought to popularize photography, the Kodak Brownie was introduced in 1888. A box camera which had a built-in 100-exposure paper roll film, the entire camera needed to be sent returned to the factory once all the exposures had been used. There the film was processed, chocolate-toned circular photographs were printed and mounted and the camera was reloaded and returned to the consumer.
