Summary

Black and white silver gelatin photograph, south-east from Gatehouse Road features Building 10, Medical and Personnel, Kodak factory, Coburg, circa 1961.

Building 10 contained a medical centre with a full-time physician and three nursing sisters and a part-time physiotherapist. It also housed the personnel centre which included payroll, recruitment and other staff relations, and a small purchasing section supporting the factory.

Kodak manufactured and distributed a wide range of photographic products to Australasia, such as, film, paper, chemicals, cameras and miscellaneous equipment. Its client base included amateur and professional photographers as well as specialist medical and graphic art professionals who used photography, x-ray and other imaging techniques.

This photograph is part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005 after the manufacturing plant at Coburg had closed down the year before.

Description of Content

In the foreground is a road and in the mid ground is a single storey building facing the street and a pavement and lawn in front of it. On the brickwork at the far right of the building is the sign 'BLD 10'. The building frontage features windows and doors and a covered walk way in the front of the building. To the rear of the building is a flag pole.

Physical Description

Black and white silver gelatin photograph printed on light weight paper, landscape format.

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