Madelette Postcard Camera (One Minute Camera)

Madelette postcard camera (one minute camera), box type for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch reversal cards. Fitted with a meiscus lens of fixed aperture and focus. B shutter, two sprung leaves. Folding optical frame finder. Hinged holder inside camera for pack of sensitised cards. Loaded through black cloth sleeve on camera back. After exposure cards were lowered into a developing tank attached to camera bottom (missing). The Chicago Ferrotype Company. 1913

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/3965
Materials:
wood (unidentified), glass, leather, leatherette and white metal (unknown)
type:
box camera and postcard camera
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

Parts

2 madelette postcard camera sensitised cards

2 madelette postcard camera sensitised cards

2 madelette postcard camera sensitised cards. The Chicago Ferrotype Company. 1913

Materials:
card
Object Number:
1990-5036/3965/1
type:
postcard
Madelette postcard camera brochure

Madelette postcard camera brochure

Madelette postcard camera brochure. The Chicago Ferrotype Company. 1913

Materials:
paper
Object Number:
1990-5036/3965/2
type:
brochure
Madelette postcard camera instructions

Madelette postcard camera instructions

Madelette postcard camera instructions. The Chicago Ferrotype Company. 1913

Materials:
paper
Object Number:
1990-5036/3965/3
type:
instruction leaflet