Artifact of the Quarter

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What are these devices?

In this display there are three cameras, two Kodak and one Revere. One is a No. 2 Folding Cartridge Hawk-Eye Model B manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company, it was made in Rochester, New York in 1927. The other is a Monitor six-20 Folding Camera with a F4.5 Lens. The third camera is a Revere 8 Model B-61 video camera manufactured in Chicago, Illinois in 1945.

Both the Eastman Kodak Company (also known simply as Kodak) and the Revere Camera Company were leading Camera companies in America. Kodak was one of the most successful and long-standing camera Companies in the United States. It has been established since the early 1900’s in New Jersey. Today Kodak company is still based out of New Jersey with the company’s headquarters is based in Rochester. 

The Rever Camera Company specialized in small movie cameras. The Revere Company isn’t remembered by many today, but when the company was at its peak in the early 1950’s they employed 1,500 between two Chicago plants. The Revere Cine cameras where on of the top go-to budget-priced 8mm lensed camera of its time. After about two decades of decline the Revere Cameras were no longer being manufactured and the Company was closed for good in the early 1970’s.