Summary

Nine men and women from the Double K Square Dance Club, a social group organised by Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd staff at the Burnley factory, Richmond.

The staff are posed in the Powder and Solution Department storeroom at the Burnley premises, circa 1950. Marie McKinley (later de Camara) is the woman second from the front. Immediately behind her is Pearl Cleaver.

Marie worked for Kodak for 35 years in total, commencing at Abbotsford, moving to Burnley and then finishing up at Coburg. She spent the majority of her working life at Burnley in the Powder and Solution Department.

Pearl Cleaver was manager of the Powder and Solution Department at Kodak.

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 portrait of men and women, standing and crouching on factory floor, with pallet racking and handmade 'Double K Square Dance Club' sign hung behind them. The women on the left hold their skirts out in a half curtsey. One woman crouches at the front of the group and the men are in a line on the right.

Physical Description

Black and white silver gelatin photographic print, portrait format.

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