Collection Highlights: Technology

Alphonse Giroux, Paris, France. Full-plate daguerreotype camera, 1839. George Eastman Museum, gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer. 

Alphonse Giroux, Paris, France. Full-plate daguerreotype camera, 1839. George Eastman Museum, gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer. 

Alphonse Giroux (attrib.), Paris, France. Full-plate daguerreotype camera (owned by S. A. Bemis), 1840. George Eastman Museum, gift of Eastman Kodak Company.

Alphonse Giroux (attrib.), Paris, France. Full-plate daguerreotype camera (owned by S. A. Bemis), 1840. George Eastman Museum, gift of Eastman Kodak Company.

Alphonse Giroux (attrib.), Paris, France. Full-plate daguerreotype camera (owned by S. A. Bemis), 1840. George Eastman Museum, gift of Eastman Kodak Company.

Alphonse Giroux (attrib.), Paris, France. Full-plate daguerreotype camera (owned by S. A. Bemis), 1840. George Eastman Museum, gift of Eastman Kodak Company.

Frères Lumière, Paris, France. Cinématographe (as projector), 1895. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Scovill Manufacturing Company (attrib.), New York, New York. Racetrack camera (owned by Eadweard Muybridge), ca. 1884. George Eastman Museum, gift of George E. Nitzsche.

Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. Brownie (original model), 1900. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Ernst Leitz GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany. 0-Series Leica, 1923. George Eastman Museum, purchase.

Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. Super Kodak Six-20, 1938. George Eastman Museum, gift of Eastman Kodak Company. 

Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. Lunar Orbiter camera payload, 1967. George Eastman Museum, gift of Frank Marussich. 

Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. No. 1 Brownie (owned by Ansel Adams), ca. 1901. George Eastman Museum, gift of Ansel Adams. 

Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. Vest Pocket Kodak Autographic Special (owned by Ansel Adams), ca. 1915. George Eastman Museum, gift of Ansel Adams. 

Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. Eastman View No. 2D (owned by Alfred Stieglitz), 1921. George Eastman Museum, gift of Georgia O’Keeffe. 

Folmer & Schwing Division of Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. RB Auto Graflex (owned by Alfred Stieglitz), ca. 1910. George Eastman Museum, gift of Georgia O’Keefe. 

Folmer Graflex Corporation, Rochester, New York. Anniversary Speed Graphic camera, 1940. George Eastman Museum, gift of Graflex, Inc.

Jos-Pe Farbenphoto GmbH, Hamburg, Germany. Tri-Color Camera (owned by Nickolas Muray), ca. 1925. George Eastman Museum, gift of 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley. 

J. F. Shew & Company, London, England. Delta Reflex (owned by Alvin Langdon Coburn), ca. 1910. George Eastman Museum, bequest of Alvin Langdon Coburn. 

Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. Tactical Camera, 1988. George Eastman Museum, gift of Exelis.