File contains reproductions of 3 employee contracts. The first, originally dated August 9, 1899, details the employment contract between John G. Palmer and Eastman Kodak Company. John G. Palmer became the treasurer of Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd., in 1899 and the company's first president in 1918. The latter two contracts, originally dated October 13, 1917 and January 1, 1923, detail the employment contract made between photographic emulsion maker, Eben J. Quigley, and Eastman Kodak Company.

File consists of annual notices written to the employees of Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd. regarding wage dividends issued by the company between 1913 and 1964. File also includes miscellaneous managerial documents--including presentation notes, press releases, and other forms of communication--pertaining to the issuance of wage dividends in 1975. The records were likely complied by Kenneth Winter who, among other positions within the company, was the assistant general manager of Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd. from 1962 to 1976.

File contains records pertaining to Canadian Kodak's employee stock purchase plan, including a written description of the program as well as correspondence with barristers and with the Morgan Guarantee Trust Company of New York. The records were likely complied by Kenneth Winter who, among other positions within the company, was the assistant general manager of Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd. from 1962 to 1976.

Item is a survey report on the human resource practices of fourteen manufacturing companies in Toronto and its environs in 1938, including Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd. The survey contains information on "working hours, starting rates, minimum take-outs, average earnings, rate structure, employee relations, etc." and also details general policies on issues such as the hiring of married women.

File includes compiled newspaper clippings and transcriptions of radio and television broadcasts related to the Kodak employee strike of 1974. The strike was the first in Kodak Canada's history and was instigated by members of the International Chemical Workers Union (ICWU), which had organized at Kodak Canada thirty years earlier. The strike lasted 7 weeks and affected over 1000 employees. The clippings, divided into weeks of the strike, were likely compiled by A. A. Bolté, Kodak Canada's media spokesperson at the time.

File consists of 17 brochures and pamphlets designed as reference material for employees of Kodak Canada Inc. Topics include: Kodak's stock purchase, medical, insurance, survivor benefit, and pension plans; recruitment brochures; 1 pamphlet providing an overview of Eastman Kodak's inustrial relations department; 1 promotional pamphlet for Eastman Savings and Loan; and externally-published pamphlets containing information on stress management and organizational change.

File includes 24 handbooks published by Kodak Canada and 1 published by Eastman Kodak (1959) designed to provide general orientational information for Kodak employees on all aspects of the company and its facilities. Topics include: general policies; benefits programs; plant rules; recreation facilities; health and safety; education and advancement opportunities; payment schedules; and many others. Some years missing.

File includes documents pertaining to the publication of Kodak Canada's employee benefits brochures from 1990 to 1991 in both English and French. This includes corporate memos, meeting minutes and 'critical path' documents composed by Kodak employees throughout the process of publication, as well as annotated photocopies of draft brochures.

File consists of three cardboard slipcases containing human resources brochures published between 1980 and 1988 as reference material for Kodak Canada employees. File also includes generic corporate letters welcoming employees to Kodak Canada and providing further information about employee benefits.

File consists of 13 collective bargaining agreements made between 1966 and 1997. Agreements for the years 1966 to 1974 are made between Kodak Canada and Local 159 of the International Chemical Workers' Union. Agreements for the years 1978 to 1997 are made between Kodak Canada and the Employees' Association of Kodak Canada. Kodak Canada employees were later represented by the Steelworkers' Union.

File contains posters announcing wage dividends to be paid out to eligible Kodak employees from 1947 to 1985.

Item is a letter sent to Kodak Canada employees announcing forthcoming staff reductions and offering retirement enhancements and incentives for those willing to leave positions voluntarily.

Item is a duotang to Kodak Canada employees who travel frequently, from the Executive Committee, outlining specific policies and procedures around business travel.

Item is a booklet that outlines policies, procedures, and responsibilities for Kodak employees in protecting company information.

Item is a booklet that outlines policies, procedures, and responsibilities for Kodak employees in protecting company information.

Item is a booklet that outlines Kodak's expected principles and ethics of business for employees.

Item is an information folder informing Kodak Canada employees that they can select a Kodak-branded gift to celebrate the company's centennial. Gifts included a keychain, commemorative plate, drinking glasses, or a record album. Also included is a letter from the company president, Ken Winter, to staff explaining the program.

Sub-series consists of records pertaining to the activities of Kodak employees from 1916 to 2001. To a significant extent, Kodak Canada imported the corporate culture created by George Eastman at Eastman Kodak Company. This culture encouraged and supported employee participation in collective leisure activities, including participation in athletic and cultural clubs and events. Sub-series includes records pertaining to employee involvement in WWI and WWII, employee recognition events and annual meetings, and employee leisure and athletic activities.

File contains documents related to Kodak staff involvment in the First World War. Includes newspaper clippings from the Toronto Star Weekly of July 17, 1916 detailing the use of building 5 of Kodak Heights as barracks for the 127th battalion, with an accompanying list detailing the names of officers pictured. Also included is a photocopied letter to then-general manager of Canadian Kodak, John G. Palmer, from an officer of the 2nd Battalion regarding the transfer of J[ames] W. Spence from England to France. Spence was an active executive member of Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd., eventually acting as chairman of the board from 1955-1957.

File contains records related to employee involvement in the Second World War. Includes newspaper clippings related to individual staff member involvement; typescript lists of employees enlisted or killed in action; and an issue of Kodak magazine from October 1943 containing an annotated list of Canadian Kodak staff members who volunteered to fight.

File contains: pamphlets produced for the first three Kodak Athletic Association annual picnics (1919-1921), as well as 1 leaf from the March 1945 issue of Kodak magazine (vol.1, no. 2) showing photos of the Kodak Heights badminton club and softball team.

File includes 36 programs from Kodak's annual Pioneers' anniversary banquet and 2 from Kodak's annual recognition luncheon, each held to celebrate years of service for Kodak employees. File also includes 2 word processed pages of preparatory notes for presentations for Kodak employees Ron Morrison and Linda Shirley, each written in 1988, highlighting Kodak events from 25 and 40 years earlier. The first Pioneers' night was held on December 8, 1939.

File includes programs and other ephemera related to events held in honour of individual Kodak employees, such as celebrations of years of service and retirement. Honourees include E. Stanley Currie, Jim Spence, Frank Frey, Henry E. Herbert, [Wilbur E.] 'Squire' Appleyard, Bill Hales, John O. Arrowsmith, Jim Atkin, and James Cowan. Some programs contain photographs of the honourees.

File contains programs from 1946 to 1953 for the Kodak Department Managers' Club spring meeting, held annually in the employee building (building #9) of Kodak Heights.

File includes 5 issues of E.C. & M. Newsletter, a typescript publication produced by employees of Kodak Canada's Electrical Construction & Maintenance Department, from 1972 to 1973. Publication contains information on safety procedures and other plant operations, as well as information about employee activities, employee biographies, puzzles and brainteasers.

File includes seven miscellaneous post cards, greeting cards and thank you cards from and to Kodak employees from 1932 to approximately 1990.

File includes: photocopied photographs and ephemera related to a Kodak musical ensemble; a holiday chain letter; two photocopied images of the 'Six sigma green belt training program'; a photocopied page of a 1968 company newsletter listing births, deaths, and new arrivals; and records pertaining to the death of W. Bruce Poldon.

File includes 10 music scores stamped with "Kodak Glee Club" or "Kodak Choral Society", along with a program pamphlet for a concert at the St. James-Bond United Church.

Sub-series consists of records pertaining to the operation of the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection and Museum. The Kodak Canada Heritage Collection was instigated in the early 1990s as a continuation of the Kodak Canada Archives, intended to document and display Kodak Canada's corporate history. The archival was never formally absorbed by the museum and was housed in a room adjacent to the museum exhibition space in building 9 of Kodak Heights, in a series of 5 filing cabinets. The Heritage Collection operated under the curatorship of Bonnie Chapman, an employee in Kodak's Corporate Communications department. A request was made in 1996 to establish a permanent exhibition space for the collection in building 9 of Kodak Heights. In 1998, Kodak Canada collaborated with consultants from the Royal Ontario Museum to conceptualize and install the exhibition that was housed in this permanent space. The Museum officially opened in 1999 and was closed as part of the dissolution of Kodak Canada's manufacturing operations in the early 2000s. Many of the records and objects contained in the overall Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection housed at Ryerson University were originally part of this Museum collection. Records in this sub-series include: display labels and captions; notes and correspondence related to museum events; records pertaining to Kodak's partnership with the ROM; loan agreements and calls for donations; reference material; records and inventories of artifacts; and other ephemera. There was significant crossover between the activities of the Kodak Heritage Collection and Museum and those of the Corporate Communications and Public Affairs department, particularly surrounding Kodak Canada's centennial celebrations in 1999.

File consists of draft and finalized labels for a display consisting of a naval gunsighting telescope and Mark III and IX compasses and their component parts. Includes photocopied images of the display. Mark III and IX compasses and naval gunsighting telescopes were produced by Canadian Kodak Co. during WWII.

File consists of 4 itemized indexes of the contents of the Kodak Canada Archives, likely created between 1977 and 1990. The archival collection pre-dated the Kodak Canada Heritage Museum and was never formally absorbed by the museum. The archives were housed in a room adjacent to the museum exhibition space in building 9 of Kodak Heights, in a series of 5 filing cabinets.

File contains correspondence, notes and drawings related to Kodak Canada's copper emulsion "making kettle," used in a dark room of Building #3 of Kodak Heights to produce photographic film emulsions.

File contains records created as a result of the Kodak Heritage Collection's partnership with Cultural Innovations: the Advisory Services of the Royal Ontario Museum. Cultural Innovations was hired by Kodak Canada to consult on Kodak's exhibition, Past Preserved, Future Defined, and worked with Kodak from December 1998 until the exhibition opened at Kodak Heights in June 1999. Records pertain to all aspects of exhibition design and execution and include: Cultural Innovations' original proposal; project schedules and budgets; concept design documents; floorplans and other diagrams; text panel drafts; fabric samples; correspondence; and other ephemera.

File contains records related to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection, held in Building #9 of Kodak Heights on June 10, 1999. The museum opened with the exhibition Past Preserved, Future Defined, produced in partnership with Cultural Innovations: the Advisory Services of the Royal Ontario Museum. File includes notes, draft invitations, printed email correspondence, lists of invitees, and other ephemera.

File contains records related to the Kodak Heritage Collection and Museum's travelling exhibitions held at the Calgary Stampede and the Canadian National Exhibition in July and August 1999, as well as events at the Calgary Zoo, the Vancouver Aquarium, and the Tour de Montréal in October 1999. File includes: notes and correspondence; invitations; exhibition text; floorplans and other diagrams; photocopied images; installation views; and other ephemera. The content of the travelling exhibition was a redacted version of the Past Preserved, Future Defined exhibition installed at Kodak Heights in June of the same year.

File contains inventories of antique cameras held under the custodianship of the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection and Museum.

File includes loan agreements made between the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection and various individuals documenting artifacts that were leant to the museum during 1999. Most agreements document artifacts leant to the Museum as part of its centennial celebrations.

Item consists of 4 copies of a call for donations of items to the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection.

File contains correspondence related to the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection and Museum. Most correspondence is with Bonnie Chapman, who worked both in Corporate Communications and Public Affairs and as the Curator of the Kodak Heritage Collection and Museum. File includes: a formal request to to Kodak facilities management requesting allocation of space for the museum; correspondence with donors to the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection; responses to reference requests; correspondence relating to viewings and tours of the collection; records related to camera loans and sales solicitations; and a letter from Bonnie Chapman to the Eastman Kodak Office of Innovation regarding a Kodak Heritage Collection project.

File includes records used as reference materials for the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection and Museum and potentially by Corporate Communications. Includes photocopies of camera catalogues and inventories; articles on the history of York; timelines of photographic history; order forms for and information on photography reference books; and information on George Eastman House, Rochester. Because the Museum was closely associated with the Corporate Communications department, a similar file of Communication Reference Material was likely also consulted by employees of the Museum.

File includes: promotional material for Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto; miscellaneous correspondence, notes, and labels.

Seris contains catalogues, price lists and advertisements for various photographic equipment available for sale from various companies, with a concentration on early 20th century companies, particularly from the Rochester, New York area.

sub-series contains publications produced by the Eastman Kodak Company detailing the Kodak products available and their pricing. Includes cameras, accessories, film, and photographic paper.

9 issues (1 is a duplicate) of Kodaks and Brownies magazine dating from 1937 to 1941 (not a complete run).

4 "Kodak Picture-Making Aids" magazines dating from 1937-1941 (not a complete run).

This file contains 3 Cine Kodak publications and 1 Kodak Picture-Making Aid. These booklets list Kodak's 8mm and 16mm home movie equipment, and include price lists and product features.

The Kodak Picture-Making Aid is dated October 1938, and one of the Cine Kodak is from 1940 (the others do not include dates).

Supply catalogue for retailers giving prices of various Kodak products.

Reprint of an 1888 Eastman catalogue of cameras, lenses, film carriers and films. Originally published by Schlicht & Field Co. in Rochester, N.Y.

One pamphlet detailing Hawk-Eye cameras for sale at Gall & Lemke in Union Square. The Hawk-Eye camera was first produced by the Boston Camera Company until 1890, when the Blair Camera Company purchased the company. Eastman Kodak then purchased the Blair company in 1907, and continued to produce the popular Hawk-eye models.

A 107 page catalogue published by Kodak Limited featuring products for motion picture and still photography for medical purposes.

The first pony Camera for 35mm film Non-interchangeable Kodak Anaston Fe.5 lens in focusing mount.

Item is a catalogue and price list for Kodak Pocket Kodak, Bullet and Bulls-Eye cameras.

Item is an information pamphlet describing Kodacolor home movie film.

File contains catalogues and price lists for Linhof cameras and photgoraphic equipment.

File contains catalogues and price lists for cameras and photgoraphic equipment manufactured by the Monroe Camera Company in Rochester, New York.

File contains pamphlets detailing the Palko roll film cameras, manufactured by the Cruver-Peters Company, later known as Palko Inc.

File contains catalogues detailing cameras from the Premo line, manufactured by the Rochester Optical Company until 1903, when Eastman Kodak purchsed the business.

File contains catalogues and price lists published by Optical Works G. Rodenstock, Munich detailing the universal lenses and shutters offered by the company.

File contains cataluges and prices lists detailing lenses available from the Jos. Schneider & Co. Optical works.

File contains catalogues and price lists for cameras and photographic eqiupment available from the Seneca Camera Manufacturing Company, Rochester, New York.

File contains a catalogue and instruction manual published by the Photo-Materials company detailing the Trolonet box camera.

File contains catalogues published by the Wollensak Optical company detailing professional studio lenses available.