During Prohibition, the Treasury Department gave doctors permission to write prescriptions for medicinal liquor, like the one issued here to Ray Sterling of South Fourth Street, Easton, Pennsylvania. Physicians prescribed alcohol to their patients…
Kodak designed their Brownie cameras to function as snapshot-takers, requiring little to no focus or aperture adjustments by the user. This Art Deco model was a bestseller, retailing for only $2.25, or $41.72 in 2017 dollars.
The Jiffy Kodak Vest Pocket or V.P. (pictured on left) was capable of producing eight photographs per film roll. In the 1920s, it retailed for around $5.00, or roughly $69.99 in today’s currency.This Kodak was made of a revolutionary material called…