1996.25.2

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Details

ID Number

1996.25.2

Category

T&E For Communication

Sub-category

photographic T&E

Item Name

camera

Maker

Kodak

Materials

metal, unknown; glass; leather, unknown

Measurements

overall: 2 5/16 in x 3 3/8 in x 5 9/16 in

Description

square-shaped box; lens embedded in front; view finders on top and right side at front releases shutter; leather strap on top; small round window in back

History

Target Brownie six - 16 hand-held camera: belonged to donor's mother, Mary Della Valle - probably purchased in Welland. The object was found in Mary Della Valle's house after her death while it was being cleaned in preparation for sale. Mary liked taking pictures and bought cameras. Donor remembers her mother taking pictures of her and her brother, Philip out in the snow on Lincoln Street Welland Ontario, when she was 8 years old (1945). Eventually donor's mother bough new camera and stopped using older ones. Donor says her mother started using instamatics approximately when they moved to Heller Ave. in 1947 (Welland Ontario).

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subject (Fre)

Y

Subjects

Della Valle, Mary person

Social life subject

Wellington place