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26. Alexander Black, "The Amateur Photographer," The Century Magazine, vol. 34 (1887) pp. 722-29.*
27. George Eastman, "The Kodak Manual," manuscript, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
28. Advertisement reproduced in Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr., A Century of Cameras (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, Inc., 1973), p. 62.
The best remembered of these cameras is the Kodak, ?ented and manufactured by George Eastman, a dry-tte maker in Rochester, New York. Introduced in 1888, strange name was a word coined by Eastman. He ex-lined,was a purely arbitrary combination of letters, not de-red in whole or part from any existing word, arrived at ter considerable search for a word that would answer requirements for a trademark name. The principal of ese were that it must be short; incapable of being mis-elled so as to destroy its identity; must have a vigorous id distinctive personality; and must meet the require-ents of the various foreign trademark laws.
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