Summary
Photograph featuring female workers on what looks to be the Starmite camera assembly line in the Cameras Reels & Sundries department in Building 15 at the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory, Coburg, circa 1961.
The camera assembly section moved from Abbotsford to Coburg in 1961.
This is Slide 243 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.
Description of Content
Women in blue uniforms seated at long row of desks, facing each other. There are pneumatic electric tools attached to each workstation. Some women wear gloves, others converse with one another. There are shelves and timber cupboards in the background.
Physical Description
Square colour photograph with white border.
More Information
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Ms. Kate Metcalf - Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, 2005
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Acknowledgement
Courtesy of Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd.
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Organisation Depicted
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Coburg, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1961-1963
Kodak moved its camera assembly operations to Coburg in 1961. It started making Instamatic cameras in 1963 but it is unclear when it stopped making Star series cameras although it was possibly around the time that Instamatics were made in Australia. -
Format
Photograph, Colour
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Photographic products, Factory interior views
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
89 mm (Width), 89 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Manufacturing, Factories, Photographic Products, Workers, Cameras, Assembly Lines
