Camera

Object Name:

Camera

Object ID:

1990.076.03

Creator:

Whitehouse Products, IncManufacturer

Place of Origin:

Brooklyn, NY

Date:

1940-1960

Description:

Camera, Beacon 225, for 620 film. Black plastic with metal trim and black pebble-textured covering. Lens slides forward 1.25". Nameplate around lens: "Beacon / Two-twenty-five / MADE IN U.S.A. / WHITEHOUSE PRODUCTS, INC. / BROOKLYN, N.Y." Lens marked "DOUBLET / 70mm. COATED". Shutter button at front. Film winding knob on top. Hinged back with label inside: "USE SIZE 620 FILM / PATS. U.S.A. / OTHERS PENDING / WHITEHOUSE PRODUCTS, INC." With brown leather carrying case, marked on front: "Beacon / 225".
A. Camera
B. Brown leather case, marked on front "Beacon / 225"

Material:

Metal
Glass
Plastic
Leather

Dimensions:

H-3.75 W-5.25 D-2.375 inches

Provenance:

Purchased, along with two other cameras and a View-Master viewer, for exhitib "An Eye for Eternity: 150 Years of N.H. Photography".

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase

Subjects:

Cameras