Item MM 141465 Photograph - Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, Workers Bottling Chemicals, Burnley, circa 1960s

Summary

Photograph featuring male workers bottling chemicals in the Kodak Burnley plant and processing centre.

This is Slide 201 from the 'Extra Prints of Coburg Lecture' album which contained hundreds of images of the factory and its workers which could be used with a slide presentation titled 'A Look At Kodak Coburg Australia', issued by the Photo Information Services Department at Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, circa 1960s.

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.

Description of Content

Two male workers in white overalls with yellow plastic containers underneath hoses and taps. Two large vats in background and box in foreground.

Physical Description

Square colour photograph with white border.