Summary

Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd staff at the Burnley factory, Richmond, celebrating at a Christmas party in 1966.

This photograph was donated by Marie De Camara, nee McKinley, who worked for Kodak for 35 years. Marie commenced at Abbotsford, then moved to Burnley, where she spent the majority of her working life in the Powder and Solution Department. She later moved to Kodak's factory in Coburg.

The Burnley building 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 document 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

Group of men and women drinking and laughing and raising their glasses. There is a table in the foreground laid with food and drinks. On the wall behind there are Christmas lights and streamers hang above their heads.

Physical Description

Black and white silver gelatin photographic print, landscape format.

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