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introduction by Eastman

  • A photo of the box-shaped Eastman Kodak camera from 1888, with a leather handle on top and an open front panel showing its lens and interior.
    In Eastman Kodak Company: Origins and early innovations (1880–1900)

    …1900, Eastman introduced the less-expensive Brownie, a simple box camera with a removable film container, so that the whole unit no longer needed to be sent back to the plant.

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  • George Eastman, 1926.
    In George Eastman

    …years later he introduced the Brownie camera, which was intended for use by children and sold for one dollar. By 1927 Eastman Kodak had a virtual monopoly of the photographic industry in the United States, and it has continued to be one of the largest American companies in its field.

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