First Pictures Taken With My Kodak

Alvin, Leona, Mildred and Harold Brunken

First Pictures Taken With My Kodak

Alvin and Mildred Brunken

Who's Who

Top picture - left to right:

• "Alvin" is Alvin William Brunken.
• "Leona" is Leona Cecelia Brunken.
• "Harold" is Harold Carsten Brunken.
• "Mildred" is Mildred Lorena Brunken.

Story

First pictures taken with my kodak

My mother, Hilda Ida Brunken, took snapshots of her siblings as the first pictures she took with her Kodak box camera[1][2].

Classical Kodak Box Camera[3]

I think that this is the same box camera that our family used to take snapshots until in the 1950's. I even took some of my first pictures with this camera.

Date

1924. The children are wearing the same clothes as they are wearing in the Hilda, Alvin, Leona, Harold and Mildred Brunken - 1924 post.

Location

Lahoma, Oklahoma - Note the vines in the background - they grew on the porch of the William Brunken farm house near Lahoma, Oklahoma.

Notes

1. Scanned on October 29, 2014 from a picture album[2] prepared by Hilda Ida Brunken.
2. These are the first pictures that I have posted from one of my mother's photo album. This album includes mounted pictures labeled from 1919 to 1927 and loose pictures some of which have dates up to 1935.
3. "The KODAK camera introduced in 1888 was the first "box" camera to become widely adopted by the public ... Because of the inability to adjust focus, the small lens aperture and the low sensitivity of the sensitive materials available, these cameras work best in brightly lit daylit scenes when the subject is within the hyperfocal distance for the lens and of subjects that move little during the exposure -- snapshots." Downloaded from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_camera October 29, 2014.