No. 3 Kodak
Camera
Eastman Company
American, 1889–1892
No. 3 Kodak
December 1889
Wood, leather, metal, felt, string, and glass
Overall: 5 7/8 × 4 1/2 × 11 7/16 in. (15 × 11.5 × 29 cm)
Image: 1 1/4 × 1 11/16 in. (3.3 × 4.3 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1974.0037.1577
DescriptionRoll film camera with string-set shutter and felt lens cap.
Inscriptions Printed in black ink, label applied inside lens compartment, bottom, C: In ordering supplies for this \ Camera always specify \ FOR NO. 3 KODAK_
Printed in black ink, plate affixed inside lens compartment door, BC: Made by \ The Eastman Company \ Rochester, N.Y. U.S.A.
Inscribed in pencil, on magazine and inside camera rear: 179
Stamped in leather, camera back, C: [illegible]
Stamped in leather, on camera top, rear edge, C: 6966
Stamped in leather, on camera back, top edge, C: 6966
Printed in black ink, green label applied inside lens compartment door, TR, and on camera bottom, C: PHOTOGRAPHIE \ LÉON CARON \ 45, Place St. Denis, 45 \ AMIENS
Printed in black ink, plate affixed inside lens compartment door, BC: Made by \ The Eastman Company \ Rochester, N.Y. U.S.A.
Inscribed in pencil, on magazine and inside camera rear: 179
Stamped in leather, camera back, C: [illegible]
Stamped in leather, on camera top, rear edge, C: 6966
Stamped in leather, on camera back, top edge, C: 6966
Printed in black ink, green label applied inside lens compartment door, TR, and on camera bottom, C: PHOTOGRAPHIE \ LÉON CARON \ 45, Place St. Denis, 45 \ AMIENS
