Recollect when Kodak made its first business camera, a clever development that flaunted the trademark “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest”?
- Lady in a paddling vessel, around 1890. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
You presumably don’t, on the grounds that this accomplishment happened 125 years prior when George Eastman presented the second Kodak camera at any point made. The contraption looked basically in no way like the gadgets we’re utilized to, however it carried photography into the homes of regular individuals with, well, the press of a catch. What’s more, a genuinely sensible cost of $25 — a cost that adds up to around $600 today, as per Design Taxi.
Because of a little UK-based establishment known as the National Media Museum, we’re ready to think back on history and examine a portion of the absolute first beginner photos ever taken. Snapped with the Kodak No. 1 (the first Kodak camera was essentially named “Kodak”), the pictures give a striking, highly contrasting look into life during the 1890s.
Look through the photographs beneath, civility of National Media Museum’s Flickr Commons assortment, and let us know your musings on the pictures in the comments.
- Youngsters rowing in the ocean, around 1890. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
- Infant elephant at the zoo, around 1890. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
- Youngsters rowing in the ocean, around 1890. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
- Situated man perusing a book, 1888. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
- Youngsters strolling with a work cart, around 1890. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
- Two little youngsters, around 1890. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
- Kid rowing in the ocean, around 1890. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
- Young lady glancing in a stone pool, around 1890. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
- Two men on the deck of a boat, around 1890. National Media Museum – Kodak Gallery Collection
- Lady perusing, around 1890. National Media Museum – Kodak Gallery Collection
- Lady at a market slow down, around 1890. Assortment of National Media Museum/Kodak Museum
