Summary

Photograph of the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd garage in Burnley circa 1953. This garaged the Kodak delivery vehicles which were used to deliver the processed film and photographs from the nearby Kodak black and white photo finishing laboratory at 550-556 Swan Street in Burnley. The Swan Street tramlines can be seen in the foreground of the image.

This building had been purchased by Kodak in 1950 as the Abbotsford factory became too cramped. The building was previously the Barnes Honey Factory.

Both Kodak's black and white photo finishing laboratory and the Powder and Solution Department (later known as the Photochemical Department) operated out of these premises until1974. The Photochemical Department was transferred to the Coburg factory in 1974, while the photo finishing laboratory closed down at this time because a black and white processing and developing service was no longer provided by Kodak after Burnley was vacated.

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, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.

Description of Content

Garage style building with small Kodak sign. To the right is a commercial building with signage: "Mobiloil". There are vehicles in front of the Mobiloil building. In the foreground is a street with tram tracks. A man is crossing the street in front of the Kodak building.

Physical Description

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

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