The Kodak of 1888 is reputed to be the first camera to allow the snapshot - and to change social history and the way we recorded it for ever. But it was expensive and the author argues that it was the $1 Brownie twelve years later that really put photography into the hands of everyone, even children This is the history of the Eastman cameras of that last decade of the 19th Century and the people and companies that brought family photography to life in a full colour magazine format - a special edition of the Hunter's and Collectors camera collectors magazine about to be launched.