Summary

Black and white silver gelatin photograph of a streetscape view of Grosvenor Street in Abbotsford, Kodak Factory, 1961

As the original factory at Southhampton Crescent outgrew its premises, several small factory buildings close by were acquired by the company to accommodate operations which were self-contained and not associated from the main film and paper manufacturing operations.

The building in Grosvenor Street was purchased by Kodak to accommodate its Reels and Sundries operations. This building occupied a rectangular block of land through to Duke Street. Both street frontages had brick facades and side wings with iron cladding over timber and steel framing and a trussed saw tooth roof allowing large expanses of clear floor area with natural lighting. The larger section of this building facing Duke Street along with an adjacent iron clad skillion roofed annexe to the north served as the Garage, whilst the remaining section facing Grosvenor Street accommodated the Reels and Sundries Department operations. These buildings were collectively known as the 'Kodak Garage'.

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

This is a streetscape of Flockhart Street in Abbotsford featuring the east face of a factory building and looking towards Southhampton Crescent with a neighbouring milk bar and the Phoenix biscuit factory tower in the distance and with parked cars and a neighbouring residence in the foreground. This building was used for the company's Reels and Sundries operations.

Physical Description

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

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