Summary
A large Kodak branded envelope used to store Kodak Advantix prints and negatives after processing. This is a special edition envelope with Sydney 2000 Olympic Games sponsorship logo on the front. Advantix was the first Kodak digital camera available on the market.
This is one of many of Kodak photograph and negative envelopes collected by former Kodak employee Yvonne Cameron. Yvonne not only worked in the canteen and staff shop at Coburg from 1964 to 1975, she was an active member of the Kodak Camera Club. She also lived in a street behind the factory and watched as the factory was constructed in the late 1950s, saw through its various phases of development and then she witnessed its final closure and demolition from 2004 - 2011.
This envelope was donated as part of the Kodak Oral History Project. It complements the Kodak Heritage 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
Yellow and white cardboard envelope printed in colour.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Mrs Yvonne Cameron, 01 Jun 2015
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Date Manufactured
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Coburg, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 2000
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User
Mrs Yvonne Cameron (née Welch) - Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd., circa 2000
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Inscriptions
Front, printed: 'Kodak / ADVANTIX / Processing / Take pictures. Further.' Front, top right, printed: (Blue, yellow and red Sydney Olympic logo) 'Sydney 2000' (5 concentric circles - Olympic logo) Inside, printed: 'Ordering reprints & / enlargements has / never been easier. / (4 colour photographs of children in different sizes with measurement written underneath) / (Inside red oval) 'New Easy Reprint System / 1. Select the picture you want from the ... / (red oval) IMPORTANT / This cassette contains / your negatives. Do not / reload in camera' (end of red oval) / 3. Find the film cassette with the matching number. / ... to place your order.'
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Overall Dimensions
318 mm (Width), 150 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Advertising, Photography, Packaging, Photographic Film, Photographic Processing, Photographic Printing Processes, Digital Photography, Olympic Games: Sydney, 2000, Sporting Events