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Early 1900 Camera Talk & Giveaway

5/20/2012

 
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In recent weeks I've shown my Finnish heritage  in photos and memoirs, and although I haven't spoken of my husband's ancestry, I've shown items belonging to his namesake, Uncle Nelson.

This week I want to show a shared passion - photography. If you've followed any of my blogs, you know I'm never without a camera and take pictures of everything. What I didn't realize when I started posting my family history was that my grandfather, known as Pappa, was a professional photographer before he left Finland. Couple that with the knowledge that my mother started taking pictures as a teenager, and you see where my love for the hobby comes from.

Although I'd love to claim this early 1900's photo as one from my family history, I'm actually using it with permission from the collection of  www.kodakgirl.com.

See the camera the girl is holding? It's a Kodak 3A Pocket Camera. And that's the one that brings Nelson's family history in line with mine since he's the one with that particular model. His father, Wayne Draper, passed it on down from his father, Noah Draper. Nelson also received a box of letters written by his grandfather, Noah Draper, to Ethel Nelson, the woman he would later marry. The letters and photos start in 1911 and carry through WW1. I'll be featuring them in a future blogpost.  For today, I'll start with some photos of the camera.

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1911 Kodak 3A Pocket Camera
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1911 Kodak 3A Pocket Camera
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1911 Kodak 3A Pocket Camera
A bit of history on Kodak... In 1888, Kodak was the first company to mass produce a camera. Called, the Kodak Camera, it came loaded with enough film for 100 pictures and claimed that anyone could use it without instructions.
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To prove their point, Kodak began an ad compaign using women which would continue for decades. Called Kodak girls, the ads featured women in normal walks of life using cameras. What I dislike about the ad campaign is that it shows the women of that era as being so simple-minded even they can use the camera.
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1888, The 1st Kodak camera and Kitty Cramer, the 1st Kodak Girl
What I found fascinating about these ads is that it features active women doing things outside the home. They're always on the go, taking photos of all kinds of interesting people and things.

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A Kodak Girl on the go carrying a Folding Pocket Kodak camera.
In the above ad, the Kodak girl is carrying a folding pocket camera similar to the Model 3A that Nelson received. I think she looks great!

And here's a fun bit of research...

1890 Kodak Factory

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Kodak factory at Harrow, 1890s
Kodak’s Harrow factory was in use from 1891 for emulsion-making,
paper-coating and for the processing and printing of customers’ films. In this view, taken soon after its opening, female employees are seen printing negatives by sunlight in the upper gallery of Building 1. 

The egg-white needed to coat albumen paper for contact printing was supplied by a flock of a hundred chickens kept on the site.

Gelatin silver print (printed later)

Image and text supplied by the British Library Online Gallery 

Considering that Kodak has been in the news lately because of it's financial woes, I found it bittersweet to research their successful early stategies which benefited so many people. I wish they had been able to continue. And I thank George Eastman for making his vision a reality for the common person.

Do you have a camera? What was your first one and what kind do you have now?

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GIVEAWAY 
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Leave a comment with a
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to be entered in a draw for a book
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If you're the winner, I'll email you the list and you can pick.

The pile contains an assortment of books including
inspirationals, mainstream,
autobiographies, self-help, devotionals and children's books, all new.

And maybe even a Dean Koontz novel, What the Night Knows, if it's still available.

May 23 UPDATE
The children's books are all gone, but the Dean Koontz novel is still available.


Winner beware!
The fiction books are a mix of inspirational and mainstream and
may contain scenes offensive to some people - which is why I don't want to keep them.
But I'm just guessing because I haven't read them.


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DebH
5/22/2012 03:32:41 am

now that is just super cool, Anita. i love camera history and would love to have something like that kodak camera get passed along to me. i think it's wonderful how you take so many pictures and carry on a family tradition. you do take great pictures, btw (and i owe you a photoshop tutorial - i haven't forgotten... Guppy interference *heh*).

you dig up the best history information of anyone i know. the kodak girl history is very interesting - as well as how chickens were kept on site for egg white production - Green industrial process perhaps?
i always thought printing negatives was done in a darkroom.

uber cool post Anita. i'm glad i stopped by to see what was happening.

Anita Mae
5/23/2012 03:32:39 am

Thank you for saying I take great pics, Deb. I used to blush and say, shucks, but now that I know it's a family tradition, I feel like I ought to give credit for those genes. It also makes me wish I had talked more with Pappa during those times we sat together in companiable silence while he enjoyed his smoke out in the barn or woodshed. His English wasn't good at all, and he preferred sign language punctuated with Finn to get his point across, but I learned some things from him. I wish photography had been one of them.

About those chickens... can you imagine a company doing that today? LOL

However, it makes the tradgedy of Kodak's financial ruin even more poignant when I see how the company started.

And yes, until I saw that photo of the women, I thought all negatives were developed in a darkroom, too.

I'm glad you stopped by too, Deb. I'm always happy to see you. :)

Suzie Johnson
5/22/2012 04:07:46 pm

Wow, Anita, great pictures. I love the picture of that camera, all the close ups. But I also love the "kodak girl" picture and the "Gibson girl" picture. Very nice. And fun.

My first camera was an Olympus 35 mm. That's all I remember about it. I loved it, but even more, I loved the darkroom and developing film. Mmm, love the smell of all those chemicals. I can smell it now, even after all these years. Thanks for the sensory memory, Anita!

Now days, I have a Kodak digital camera and it does everything I need. Keith has a 35 mm Nikon digital camera and it takes phenomenal pictures. Of course, he also has a very artistic eye. I don't.

Anita mae
5/23/2012 03:49:48 am

Hey Suzie, which one is the "Gibson girl"? I'm not familiar with her, but would love to know more.

I didn't realize you knew how to develop photos. Even I don't know that! I know you're a go-getter, but your list of accomplishments is worthy of recognition. I'd love to write about you some day.

Had to laugh at you sniffing the chemicals considering you're a germophile. Now how did that work out? LOL Who taught you about cameras and developing? And did your Olympus 35mm have interchangeable lenses?

My first camera was a little brown plastic Brownie. I can't remember the instamatic camera of my teen years, but once I had enough money after we were married, Nelson took me to buy a Miranda 35mm with additional 200mm zoom lens. I loved that camera for 20 yrs before the zoom lens had a screw loose inside. Got it fixed and went another 10 yrs until light started getting in somewhere. I still have it, but there is NO comparison to the digital Nikon P500 hybrid with 700mm built-in zoom that I have now.

Suzie Johnson
5/25/2012 03:31:17 pm

Anita, the girl with the parasol looks like a Gibson girl to me.

I don't think of photography chemicals as germ-ridden. Probably all the chemicals kill the germs. LOL.

I took this really awesome photography class in high school with a really cool darkroom. I loved it. Now while I loved taking pictures - still do - I loved the developing process. It's really amazing. I met my husband the next year, and taught him about 35 mm cameras, and he's the one who ran with it. He has an amazing Nikon digital camera. I use my Kodak digital. :-) He has all the lenses. I bought my Olympus at a pawn shop back in 1976, and it didn't have a removable lens.

Anita, I'm not sure I'd be that interesting to write about, but I did love the interview you did for ACFW. If anyone can make me sound interesting, it would be you.

Anita Mae
5/27/2012 04:53:20 pm

I realized today that I called you a germophile. Shouldn't that be a germophobe? And yet, I couldn't find either on my dictionary.com app.

That's great how you and hubby share a hobby like photography. It's sometimes hard for others to figure out why we take so many photos, but another photographer knows why.

And yes, you'd be very interesting. I'd love to do the interview at Inkwell for your book release week. For here, however, I don't do interviews. What I'd like from you is a nice post with a photo or two of that little antique toothpick holder. That is very interesting. Think about it, okay?

And because of your Gibson Girl comment, I found an answer which will be in this week's post. :)

Carla Gade link
5/28/2012 08:03:05 am

Anita, Thank you so much for this fabulous post on the Kodak camera. I really enjoyed learning about the family history you shared. And, of course, your great photos! Thanks for sharing that link to Kodak Girl, too. I agree with you about the purpose in showing the women with cameras as if it was such a phenomenal thing for women to have such interests and ability to use such a complex invention.

I love photography, too, as does my mother. My debut novel, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter is about a female photographer in the US southwest.

carlagade [at] gmail [dot] com

Anita Mae
5/30/2012 03:35:08 am

Hey Carla, I didn't realize your debut novel was about a female photographer. I'll have to check it out, so thanks for the info.

If you write a post here and promote The Shadow Catcher's Daughter - great title by the way - I can link back to your post whenever I post about photography.

About the draw - you missed it by a day because I was late getting the new post up, but it's all about Kodak advertising with oodles of images. The new draw lasts until Sunday, June 3rd, so you still have several days to come back and comment, if you wish.

Contact me about a post to promo The Shadow Catcher's Daughter, okay?

Anita Mae
5/30/2012 03:40:56 am

Suzie and Deb, with only the 2 of you, I was cringing when I put your numbers into random.org because I didn't want the same person to win two weeks in a row - let's face it, it's kind of demoralizing if it's just two of you and the same person always wins. Thanks for being so loyal to this post, btw.

But when random.org was done the winner it chose was...

Suzie!

Yay, Suzie! I'll email the list so you can choose your book. Sorry for taking so long this week.

I have a new post up which answers/talks about Suzie's mention of the stripes on the Kodak Girls.

Hope to see you all there. :)

Nance
9/9/2016 05:52:31 am

Great write Cuz


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