Summary

Issue No 11 of the 'Kodak Staff Service Bulletin', 26 September 1942. This issue announces Kodak's release of War Bonds, and there is some response in letters from servicemen to the previous issue of the Bulletin.

The Kodak Staff Service Bulletin was issued during World War II by Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd to its employees and their families giving news of war efforts both at home and abroad. Each issue, compiled by volunteer staff of the Kodak Comforts Fund, featured Kodak employee enlistments by branch, casualties, comforts (aid from the Kodak Comforts Fund) and extracts from letters received by employees serving in the War. Later issues include discharges, promotions, cartoons and general news.

The complete series of the bulletin, Issues 1 to 40, ran from 1941 to 1946. These copies were originally housed in the Kodak Business Archive, separated into Issues 1-14 (1941 - 1943), Issues 15-30 (1943 - 1944) and Issues 31-40 (1944-1946).

This document 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.

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

5 page black and white newsletter, typed. Pages stapled in top left corner.

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