Summary
Packaging box for a Kodak Brownie Starmite II camera which was made by Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd in the 1960s. It comes with its original instruction leaflet.
Starmite cameras were part of the Kodak Star series of affordable and highly popular fixed-lens plastic body cameras with built-in flash or flash attachment. Ten million of the Star series cameras were sold in five years in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
This object is part of the Kodak Heritage Collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.
Physical Description
Yellow cardboard box with red, black and blue graphics advertising the Brownie Starmite II camera. In used condition. Original instruction leaflet is inside the box.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Father Mark West - St John of God Hospital Churinga Inc, by Mar 1991
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Manufacturer
Kodak, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1960s
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Overall Dimensions
11 cm (Length), 10 cm (Width), 7 cm (Height)
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Keywords
Cameras, Photographic Equipment, Photography, Photographic Products, Photographic Flash Attachments, Packaging Boxes, Packaging Design, Marketing, Box Cameras
