Summary
Photograph taken before the construction of the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory complex at Coburg, as seen through the fence of former Kodak employee and local Coburg resident, Yvonne Cameron. The photograph is captioned 'Land Before Kodak - View from House in Tilley Street. Old farm house in centre - pig farm at the back' and was taken pre 1957.
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 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 destruction from 2004 - 2011.
This image 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.
Description of Content
Outhouse in grassed backyard with shed, houses and outhouses visible in the distance
Physical Description
Black and white copy of a colour photograph, landscape format, with caption on back.
More Information
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Mrs Yvonne Cameron, 01 Jun 2015
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Place & Date Depicted
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Elizabeth Street, Coburg, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, pre 1957
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Photographer
Mrs Yvonne Cameron (née Welch) - Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd., Coburg, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, pre 1957
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Format
Photograph, 4 in. x 6 in., Black & White
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Inscriptions
Back, label, handwritten, blue ink: 'LAND (underlined) BEFORE KODAK (end of underline) / VIEW FROM HOUSE IN TILLEY STREET / OLD FARM HOUSE IN / CENTRE - / - PIG FARM AT THE BACK'
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Photographic products, Manufacturing plant images
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Keywords
Photography, Manufacturing, Factories, Construction, Housing, Farms, Outhouses