Summary

Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd workers at the Burnley factory, Richmond, circa 1966.

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 photograph 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 13 men and women posing in front of a brick wall. They are positioned in two rows, one seated and one standing, wearing their work clothes (white overalls and lab coats). On the far right, front row, a woman is sitting on a man's knee holding paper grocery bags and her purse. Behind her a young man gestures at her hair. Second from the left in the front row, a man is smoking a pipe. The legs of another staff member can be seen at far right, just out of shot.

Physical Description

Black and white silver gelatin photographic print, landscape format, mounted on heavy weight cream mounting board.

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