Summary
Draft or mock-up version of the presentation album created to comemmorate the opening of the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory at Coburg in April 1961.
Part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.
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.
Physical Description
Spiral bound album with colour photographs.
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Ms. Kate Metcalf - Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, 2005
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Acknowledgement
Courtesy of Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd.
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Place & Date of Event
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Coburg, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Apr 1961
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Inscriptions
Text, printed inside page: 'from/an idea/to an/industry / This booklet is produced by Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. to commemorate the opening at Coburg, Victoria, Australia, of one of the / most-advanced and most-modern photographic research and manufacturing plants in the world. This event is another step forward / in the march of an international industry which began, as did many great things, with a simple idea. / Kodak.'
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Photographic products, Opening events
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Type of item
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Object Measurements
350 mm (Width), 230 mm (Depth), 20 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Manufacturing, Photography, Industry, Commemorations, Opening Ceremonies
