Summary

Black and white photograph featuring the Velox paper cutting room in the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory, Abbotsford. The image is number 3 in a series featuring paper examining and processing areas.

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

Room of women seated at workstations with large sheets of paper, and a man standing at the far left of the room. Large rollers in foreground and other equipment visible against rear wall. Safelights hung from ceiling.

Physical Description

Black and white silver gelatin photograph, landscape format, mounted on card with two holes punched at left, numbered sticker at lower right, and label adhered on reverse.

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