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Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection

  • SC 2005.001
  • Fonds
  • 1895-2006

The Kodak Canada collection contains records and artifacts from the Kodak Heights manufacturing facility in Toronto, as well as the historical collection belonging to the Kodak Heritage Collection Museum. The collection consists of photographs, negatives, advertising records, magazines, pamphlets, daily record books, recipe books, cameras and other photographic equipment produced by Kodak Canada Inc., or other Kodak plants around the world. The collection includes a small selection of financial records, blueprints for Kodak facilities in Canada, and other corporate ephemera, as well as photographs of events, buildings and individual employees that illustrate the social life of the company.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Management letter: Berkey Photo Litigation defense

Item is a summary of the defense used by Eastman Kodak in the Berkey Photo vs. Eastman Kodak Company case. The case was the result of a lawsuit by Berkey Photo, a photo processing and equipment manufacturing company. The suit claimed that Kodak had a monopoly and violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. Berkey won damages of $112.8 million but this decision was reversed on appeal in 1979.

Eastman Kodak Company

Management letter: downsizing

Item is a memo intended for Canadian and U.S. managers in the Kodak Imaging sector regarding announced and upcoming downsizing of the company in Canada and the United States. Instructions on the letter note to share it with all staff.

Kodak Canada Ltd. Engineering

Kodak through its customers' eyes

Item is a booklet published by the Eastman Kodak Corporate Information Department detailing presentations given by company management at the Marketing Education Centre in October 1972. The presentations outline different market divisions of the company, including: Radiography, Potion Picture and Education, Business Systems, Consumer, Professional Commercial and Industrial, and Research and Developement

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Bullet

Item is a small hand held camera with black plastic and metal casing. Winding knob on bottom left and metal latch for attaching a flash on top (no flash included). Around lens opening, "BULLET CAMERA" is printed. Designed in art deco style.

Eastman Kodak Company

Take a Kodak with you

This item is a poster of an advertisement for a Folding Pocket Kodak Camera featuring a fashionably dressed woman, which would later become known as the Kodak Girl. The blue-and-white striped dress became her signature apparel, and she always had a Kodak camera in hand.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Signet 50 with flash attachment

Item is a viewfinder camera with black bakelite body, metal fittings and large attached flash. It is the fourth model in the Kodak Signet line, featuring a selenium photocell exposure meter. Featuring an Ektanar lens with thorium oxide, the camera is slightly radioactive.

Eastman Kodak Company

Man and women on beach with Kodak camera

Item consists of a poster featuring an image of a man taking a photograph of two women on a beach in 1923, using an electric-eye instamatic camera. Beneath the image reads: In 1923, you had to fiddle around and set exposure for sun or shade. / Now any electric-eye KODAK INSTAMATIC Camera measures the / light and sets the exposure for you automatically -- for black-and-white / and color pictures, and color slides.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak Film - the dependable film in the yellow box

Item consists of a portrait format, white, board poster, featuring a black and white image of two boxes of Kodak Film, with "Kodak Film - the dependable film in the yellow box / The film that gives the same results from roll to roll, so that you can rely on it. / Kodak Film excels on every count - speed, latitude, uniformity - and each is of picture-making importance. / Use Kodak Film, the dependable film in the yellow box. / Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto" printed beneath.

Kodak Canada Inc.

No. 1 Kodak Enlarging Camera

Item is a camera for making enlargements up to 16.5 x 21.6 cm (6.5 x 8.5 inches), using daylight. The product was marketed to amateur photographers as there was no need for a darkroom setup to produce the images. The No. 1 Enlarging Camera sold for $15.00 in 1904.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak Publication P: Instrumentation and Industrial Photography (see section G also)

File contains information and instructional booklets relating to industrial photographic practices and Kodak industrial products. Topics include microscopic photography, underwater photography, microfilm and reproduction films and papers (RAR film, Pan film, Ektaline paper, and Linograph paper), geophysical recording, instrumentation films, spectrum analysis, schlieren photography, and darkroom construction for industrial use. Also included is the "Kodak Job Sheet Packet", which outlines techniques for handling problems that arise in industrial photography.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Reference Handbooks and Technical Data

Sub-sub-series contains publications produced by Kodak for the consumer between 1940 and about 1995. Publications are pamphlets ranging from 1 to over 50 pages and intended to be stored in a series of specialized binders. The information pamphlets were published in series with an alpha numeric code, which form the sub series in this collection. Customers subscribed to receive updates based on their specific interest. Early publications, from the 1940's, were simply titled "Kodak Photographic Handbook" and later versions included: Kodak Reference Handbook, Kodak Industrial Handbook, Kodak Color Handbook, Kodak Graphic Arts Handbook, Kodak Professional and Industrial Data, and Kodak Scientific and Technical Data.

Each pamphlet has a unique, alpha-numeric Pamphlet Number, following classification scheme devised by Kodak to make ordering and subscription easy for clients. Schema is as follows:
A - Amateur Photography (also under KW)
AV - Audiovisual Programs from Kodak
B - Filters
C - Arctic Photography
CC - Publications about Kodak
D - Microfilming and Reprography Materials (also under P); Dental Radiography
E - Color Photography
F - Black and White Film
G - Black and White Papers, Industrial Photography, and Instrumentation
H - Motion Picture, TV Applications (also under D and S)
J - Chemicals, Processing, Silver Recovery, and Waste Disposal
JJ - Kodak Laboratory Chemicals
K - Darkroom Design and Construction
KW - Amateur Photography )see section A also)
L - Index
LC - Library of Creative Photography
M - Aerial, Applied, and Medical Photography
N - Medical and Scientific Photography
O - Professional Studio Photography
P - Instrumentation and Industrial Photography (see section G also)
Q - Graphic Arts
R - Exposure and Processing Guides
S - Audiovisual Applications (also under T and V)
T - Audiovisual, Education, and Professional Video Tape Products (also under AV, and V)
TD - Graphic Arts (see sections G, P, and Q also)
U - Optical Materials
V - Audiovisual (also under AV, S, and T)
W - Industrial Radiography, Chemistry
X - International Publications
Y - Processing and Equipment Record Forms
Z - Processing Monitoring Systems, Self-Instruction Materials, Literature Library Collections

A 100-Year Start on Tomorrow coasters

Item consists of three commemorative tin coasters celebrating Kodak's centennial in 1980. On the top rim of each plate it says "A 100-year start on tomorrow." One plate has an image from a 1910 Eastman Kodak Company print ad; another has an image of the 1980 Kodak Summer Girl; and the last has an image of the first Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company from 1880.

Kodak Publication D: Motion picture films, Microfilming and Reprography Materials (also under P); Dental Radiography

File contains published informational and instructional booklets regarding home film-making using Kodak equipment and supplies. Topics include: exposure; Cine-Kodak motion picture cameras and lenses storage and cleaning of motion picture film; shooting and processing PLUS-X, TRI-X and Super X films; editing and directing home movies.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Publication C/CC : Publications about Kodak, Arctic Photography

File contains instructional booklets published by Eastman Kodak on how to photograph in certain situations. Topics include: astrophotography; composition; photographing flowers; winter, flash, underwater, travel, night, close up and tropical photography; photography through binoculars; and photography the television.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Publication B: Filters

File contains published instructional and information booklets for Kodak lenses and filters. Topics include: lens, shutter & filter catalogues; coated lenses; Portra lenses; pola screens and wrattan filters; close-up photography; filters for black-and-white and colour photograhpy.

Eastman Kodak Company

Voyez ce que le Film Kodacolor peut faire pour vos instantaines!

Item consists of a portrait board poster featuring a large colour image of a photograph of a landscape of birch trees and a lake, which is continued with a black and white contour drawing. Beside the image reads "Voyez ce que le Film Kodacolor peut faire pour vos instantanes!", beneath the image is another image of a yellow box of Kodacolor film, and text that reads "Avec le Film Kodacolor vous pouvez prendre de jois instantanes en couleurs celui-ci avec votre camera".

Kodak Canada Inc.

Look what Kodacolor Film can do for your snapshots!

Item consists of a portrait board poster featuring a large colour image of a photograph of a landscape of birch trees and a lake, which is continued with a black and white contour drawing. Beside the image reads "Look at what Kodacolor Film can do for your snapshots!", beneath the image is another image of a yellow box of Kodacolor film beside a Brownie Hawkeye camera, and text that reads "With Kodacolor Film you can take beautiful color snapshots like this with your camera".

Kodak Canada Inc.

All out-doors invites your Kodak

Item consists of a portrait format board poster advertisement that reads "All out-doors invites your Kodak / Autographic Kodaks $6.70 up, at your dealer's / Canadian Kodak Co., Limited / Toronto". Above the text is a large image of a woman on the beach holding a parasol and an Autographic Kodak camera.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak gifts say open me first!

Item consists of a portrait format poster that reads "Kodak Gifts Say / Open me first! / When you open your Kodak camera outfit first, you can save all the fun of Christmas-and the years to come-in pictures" Beneath the text are images, prices, and brief descriptions of the Brownie Starflash Outfit camera, the Brownie Hawkeye Flash Outfit camera, the Kodak Pony IV Camera Outfit, and the Brownie Movie Camera Kit.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Works all week. Plays on the weekend

Item consists of a poster board advertising the Kodak Trimlite Instamatic 48 camera. The main slogan on the poster reads "Works all week. Plays on the weekend." and in smaller font is a more detailed description of the features of the camera, including Flip Flash. The poster features an image of the camera resting upon blueprints and an architectural photograph, overlapped by a photograph of a family on a sail boat.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak Tourist Adapter Kit

Item is an kit used to adapt the Kodak Tourist camera to use different film formats (828, full 620, half 620, 120) with exposures of 28 x 40mm, 5.7 x 8.25 cm, 4.14 x 5.7 cm, and 5.7 x5.7 cm respectively. The kit includes a special camera back, spool and holder, picture masks, view finder masks and a case. Imported by Canadian Kodak Company.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak Flasholder Model B

Item is an external flash bulb holder for use with "cameras equipped with Kodak 'Flash' shutters". Features include a polished aluminum reflector, bulb ejector button, bracket and exposure table. Imported by Canadian Kodak Co. Limited.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Brownie Bull's-Eye Flash outfit

Item is a small metal and bakelite camera with Kodak Twindar Lens and settings indicated for scenes, groups or individuals. Used Kodak 620 film. Outfit includes a presentation box with flash holder, one-time use flash bulbs (4 of 8 have been used), user's guide, strap, and Kodacolor II negative film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Cameo Motor 110

Item is a small, horizontal camera with pop-up lens that covers viewfinder when closed. Black plastic body with rounded edges and an orange release button. Used 110 size colour cartridges, optimized for 200 film. Comes with packaging.

Eastman Kodak Company

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