Summary

Marie McKinley (later de Camara) holding a test tube of liquid in a Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd Burnley laboratory or workroom in the 1960s.

Marie worked for Kodak for 35 years in total, commencing at Abbotsford, moving to Burnley where she spent the majority of her working life in the Powder & Solution Department and then finishing up at Coburg in the Photochemical Department. This photograph appears to be taken in the latter half of her career at Burnley.

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

Woman in collared shirt, high-waisted skirt and cardigan, smiling to camera and holding a test tube with clear liquid in it. Behind here there is a flask and clamp stand.

Physical Description

Sepia toned photographic print, portrait format

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