Item MM 139829 Photograph - Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, Elvin Teasdale, John Habersberger & Research Staff Viewing Equipment, Building 17, Coburg, 1963 - 1970

Summary

Colour photograph of Elvin Teasdale and John Habersberger viewing a piece of experimental equipment in the Research Department.

Pictured, left to right: John Habersberger, ?, Elvin Teasdale (CEO), ?

This is one of a group of twenty-nine colour photographs of Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd Management on a tour of the Research Department, Building 17, Coburg, in the 1960s.

This image is part of the Kodak 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.

Kodak manufactured and distributed a wide range of photographic products to Australasia, such as film, paper, chemicals, cameras and miscellaneous equipment. Its client base included amateur and professional photographers, as well as specialist medical and graphic art professionals who used photography, x-ray and other imaging techniques.

Description of Content

Four men, three in suits, looking down at a piece of experimental equipment, demonstrated by the young man in the plaid jacket in the foreground. Man in centre wears brown suit and glasses.

Physical Description

Colour photograph; square with off-white border. Stamped on reverse.