Empire 120 Box Camera
Object Details
- Description
- This Empire 120 box camera was made by the Emmerling and Richter Co. of Berlin, Germany during the 1930s. Flossie Haggard used this camera to document the family’s trip from Oklahoma to California during relocation of home by car and trailer via Route 66, 1935. Once in California, the Haggards and their children, Lillian and James Lowell, made their home near Bakersfield, and James found work with the Santa Fe Railway. Another son, Merle, was born in Bakersfield and began his singing career there.
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Lowell Haggard, Jr., Merle R. Haggard and Lillian Haggard Hoge
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- unknown
- ID Number
- 2003.0183.04
- accession number
- 2003.0183
- catalog number
- 2003.0183.04
- maker
- Emmerling and Richter Co.
- Object Name
- camera
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 4 in x 5 in; 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Cultures & Communities
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- Exhibition
- America On The Move
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1315845
