Summary

Issue No 21 of the 'Kodak Staff Service Bulletin', 06 November 1943. There is a Glossary of Photographic Terms stapled to the back, with a note in the 'General' section on page 1 explaining that only Service personnel's copies received these additional sections. There is also a Kodak Comforts Fund 'Combined Statement of Receipts and Payments for year ending September 30, 1943' stapled at the back.

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

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

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