Summary

Marie McKinley (later de Camara) in her work clothes on the factory floor of the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory at Burnley circa 1960s.

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.

Women in the work areas here were given a button up dress to wear over their own clothes as a protective layer. Marie is wearing one here, with a cardigan over the top.

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 cardigan and side buttoned work dress with her arms crossed across her abdomen. She is on a factory floor with machinery, including possibly an industrial scale at right, visible in the background.

Physical Description

Black and white photographic print, portrait format, with white border

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