Item MM 140524 Photograph - Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, Customers at Staff Shop, Building 9, Coburg, 1966 - 1970

Summary

Colour photograph of women staff members at the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd staff shop in Building 9 at Kodak's factory in Coburg, circa 1966 - 1970.
Pictured, left to right: Beryl Wenn and Yvonne Cameron from the staff shop are talking to Kodak canteen staff Dorothy Taafe, Lea Maloney.

This image was housed in an album of photographs and captions created by Yvonne Cameron (formerly Welch) during her period of employment at Kodak from 1964 - 1975. Yvonne worked in the canteen and camera shop at the Coburg plant and in the office at Cameras, Reels and Sundries.

This album was donated as part of the Kodak Oral History Project. It 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

Two sales assistants in grey uniforms talking to two other women in brown uniforms. Woman in white cardigan holding photo envelope leans on a counter facing two women in brown uniforms and caps. Behind the woman in white, a woman in a red cardigan stands smiling. In the background, cameras and photographic products are laid out on shelves.

Physical Description

Colour photograph; landscape format. Taped to top left of fourth page of photograph album with handwritten and typed label beneath.