Summary
A memo from a Mr Stanfield to Mr R.A. Clelland regarding Advertising Signs at Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd's new Burnley plant. The three page memo is dated 12 April 1951.
The Burnley facility was located at 550-556 Swan Street Burnley and was 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.
This memo was originally housed in the Kodak Business Archive. It 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
3 paper pages, paper clipped in the top left corner.
More Information
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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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Addressed To
Mr R.A. Clelland - Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd., 550-556 Swan Street, Abbotsford, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 Apr 1951
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Organisation Named
Burnley, Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd., 550-556 Swan Street, Burnley, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1951
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Inscriptions
Typed, black ink: '12th April, 1951 / Memo to Mr R.A. Clelland: / Advertising Signs - Burnley / As requested I am setting out here the various points upon which we / agreed during the discussion on the above subject. [...] /Sign D : West Wall - Rear / This is one of the best positions on the premises. An uninterrupted / view is assured by the relative positions of a tennis court and / children's playground, and and the sign could be seen from a great / distance both along Swan Stree and also the street on the opposite / side of the railway line, leading to the Grange Road Bridge. [...]'
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Photographic products, Business archives
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions
210 mm (Width), 336 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Photography, Manufacturing, Advertising, Signage, Correspondence