Kodak’s “autographic” vest pocket camera: a hit with Great War soldiers
From time to time, in my search for interesting old photos and negatives, I used to find negatives with writing on one edge that, when scanned, looked like this: Hospital ship, Egypt. Taken in 1919 by a returning Australia soldier aboard the transport ship Plassy, using a Kodak autographic vest pocket camera. . I wondered about them, until one day I bought an odd little old camera that had a strange opening flap on the back cover, and a cute little pointed stylus. This was, I discovered, an "autographic" camera. The principle was that you could…