Deux Duex cameras from a 1940 ad
Toronto. The ad in the August, 1940 issue of Popular Mechanics brought to mind the camera Mark Singer presented at our Show and Tell meeting a couple of years back. The little inexpensive camera was only marketed in 1940-1942.
Kodak, no stranger to collapsible, compact cameras, used the fact this camera had a lens that could be collapsed into the body (shades of Leica) as a key pitch in its advertisement. The camera was introduced months before America was dragged into WW2 and taken off market months after America joined the Allies.
The ad shown above is courtesy of my good friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar. We are very grateful that George shares some of his photo history research with others.
