1900s

  1910s

  1920s

  1930s

  1940s

  1950s

  1960s

  1970s+

Now in the 1930s, wood has all but gone except for the cheaper cameras...and some of those hide it. Thousands upon thousands of differing designs come and go as a public hungry for pictures take up photography en masse. The bellows lens bed camera with lots of black paint are still very much in vogue but now chrome plating supersedes nickel plate. Roughly in the middle of the period 35mm cameras with daylight loading cartridges begin to appear.... Bakelite is used for some cameras and aluminium continues to be used for some parts.

Click on a camera to see more details. Pictures are not to scale.


Various Kodak Box Cameras


Argus A


Argus C


Dollina 1


Autorange 220


E20


E29


KDK 620 Mod. D


Brownie Six-16


Jiffy


Retina 117


KDK Six -16


Purma Special

 
KDK 620 Mod. C

 
Box Tengor

 
Librette

 
Vollenda

 
Billy Clack

 
Leica II

 
Midget

 
Cameo


Agfa Box 44

 
Fornidar