Kodak Six-20 Brownie Junior

The Kodak Six-20 Brownie Junior is a vintage box camera introduced in the 1930s, designed to make photography accessible to the everyday user. Built with a metal or cardboard body wrapped in leatherette and adorned with distinctive Art Deco styling, it uses 620 roll film to capture large 6×9 cm images. Featuring a simple meniscus lens and fixed focus, it offers only basic exposure control with a rotary shutter providing “Instant” and “Time” settings, along with two aperture options. Its twin waist-level viewfinders allow for both portrait and landscape framing. While limited in features, the Brownie Junior’s charm lies in its straightforward design, making it a nostalgic tool for creative experimentation and a beautiful example of early 20th-century camera craftsmanship.