5-Franc Camera

5-Franc Camera is held by Archaeology and Museum Baselland (Switzerland). Description supplied by the holding institution: The donor on the object: This simple camera could be bought back then for 5 francs. This camera was produced and purchased in 1916. Our family was still taking photographs with it in the 1970s. You could only take pictures in fair weather. No. 2 Brownie, Model F, patented in USA, Oct. 6. 1914, Feb 1. 1916, Mar 21. 1916, Patents Pending Argument for preserving the object: practical, cheap, functional The object was collected in 2001 as part of the participatory collection project "Förderbar" for a "Museum of the Future". The "Förderbar" - two containers equipped with a conveyor belt and bar - was stationed in Arlesheim, Sissach and Basel during the anniversary year "Basel 2001" (500 years of Basel in the Swiss Confederation). Between 3 and 20 January 2001, the public could bring by items that in their view should be preserved for future generations. The condition for accepting an item was that an explanation was provided,… The collection record gives material recorded as Metal. Published through Europeana; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.