File contains reproductions of correspondence between John G. Palmer and members of Eastman Kodak Company, including George Eastman. Most of the correspondence pertains to the purchase and rental of property in Toronto, but some pertains to bank balances and transfers, annual general meetings, and other miscellaneous topics. Palmer was the treasurer of Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd., becoming the company's first president in 1918.

Item is a typescript letter from George Eastman, dated December 8, 1924, announcing to employees of the Eastman Kodak Company the sale of a significant share of his stocks to various educational institutions for less than their market value.

Item is a half-bound manuscript notebook containing a detailed day-to-day account of Kodak Canada's corporate operations, compiled on an ongoing basis by the company historian from January 15, 1925 to September 14, 1950. Subject matter pertains to all aspects of the company's corporate life, including plant construction and maintenance, corporate policies, production schedules and procedures, employee activities, and more.

Item contains 4 years of corporate environmental reports from the Eastman Kodak Company. Reports from 1992 and 1995 missing.

File consists of: a directory to Kodak facilites, including telephone, conference room, and department listings; a listing of Ontario customers with image centres. sorted by city; and notes and correspondence from a presentation by the Black Creek Business Corridor Intermunicipal Task Force.

Item is a letter from Kodak Canada president, Mike Ducey, to Kodak employees, dated December 9, 2004, announcing the closure of manufacturing operations in Canada by the middle of 2005.

Sub-series consists of records pertaining to Kodak Canada's human resources and industrial relations practices from 1896 to 1997. Includes logbooks pertaining to employee salaries and work hours; reproductions of employment contracts; records related to wage dividends; records related to union activity, including collective bargaining agreements and clippings from the employee strike of 1974; records pertaining to employee benefits; and Kodak employee handbooks and information brochures.

File includes three small manuscript notebooks detailing the weekly hours worked by employees at Kodak Heights between March 2, 1916 and February 1, 1927. One notebook records the activities of employees in the basement stock room of building #5; the other two notebooks record the activities of "millwrights & painters, etc."

File consists of two clothbound manuscript notebooks containing suggestions put forward by employees of Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd. between 1915 and 1959. Information recorded includes name, date, description of suggestion, date of adoption where relevant, and compensation awarded for adopted suggestions.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Item is a leather-covered binder containing typescript itemized advertising budgets and expenditures from 1921 to 1977.

Item is a cloth- and leather-bound ledger book containing general accounting records for Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd. from 1935 to 1940.

File includes correspondence, inspection reports, and technical drawings related to plant safety and risk assessment from 1913 to 1940. Correspondents include: Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd., Eastman Kodak Company, the Bureau of Explosives (Toronto), various contractors, the Mount Dennis Volunteer Fire Department, and the Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies. This latter company performed detailed inspections for insurance purposes on Kodak Heights buildings before and during construction. Topics include: outfitting Kodak Heights with sprinkler systems, fire alarms, water supplies and oxygen masks, storage and handling of magnesium and its alloys, and storage and transport of cellulose nitrate film. File also includes a preliminary inspector's report on the fire that occurred in Building #3 of Kodak Heights on November 17, 1914.

File contains correspondence, specifications, contracts, and technical drawings from 1913 to 1914 related to the construction of an outlet sewer at Kodak Heights. Correspondents include Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd., Eastman Kodak Company, and various construction companies, including F.F. Fry, General Contractors of Toronto, who were awarded the contract.

File contains miscellaneous correspondence, specifications, orders, and contracts related to the construction, outfitting, and maintenance of Kodak Heights from 1913 to 1969. Correspondents include Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd., Eastman Kodak Company, Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd., and numerous contractors.

File includes correspondence and orders related to the construction and outfitting of the gelatine blending building (building #6) at Kodak Heights. Correspondents include Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd., the Detroit Cement Floor Company, the Dominion Bridge Company, and Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co., Ltd.. Construction of building #6 began on November 6, 1929.

File contains correspondence and orders related to the construction and outfitting of the Kodak Heights employee building (building #9). Correspondents include Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd. and numerous contractors. Work on the building began on March 24, 1939 when Cedarvale Tree Experts moved trees in preparation for construction. The building was completed in 1940.

File contains records pertaining to equipment and supplies purchased to outfit Kodak Canada's Brampton facility. Includes order forms, technical drawings, and invoices for equipment such as cooling systems, doors, heaters, bathroom equipment, coat racks, and others.

File contains records related to the planning and execution of an open house and family nights held at Kodak Canada's Brampton facilities in 1973. The events celebrated the completion of the second phase of the plant with the opening of the colour print and processing building (building #34). The family nights were held on September 21 and 24, 1973; the open house was held October 18-20, 1973. File includes invitations, meeting minutes, event schedules, correspondence, posters, maps, and other ephemera.

File include 33 manuscript logbooks, created between 1912 and 1960, documenting the daily production numbers of Kodak Canada's paper manufacturing department.

Item is a report written on May 16, 1951 by L.T. Pawley and published by the Research Laboratory, Kodak Ltd., Wealdstone, Middx.

Item is a report written on June 18, 1953 by John Russell and published by Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Company.

Item is a report published in 1930 by the Eastman Kodak Company.

Item is a report published in January, 1939 by the Motion Picture Film Department, Hollywood, California, a division of Eastman Kodak Company.

Item is a reprint of an article published in The Journal of the Photographic Society of America, vol. vii, no. 4, October 1941, written by J.H. Webb of Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y.

Item is a pamphlet produced by Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, N.Y. designed as a supplement to the September 1968 issue of Scientific American.

File consists of 6 halfbound manuscript record books recording the daily stock numbers, in grams, kilograms and feet, of various types of paper manufactured by Canadian Kodak Co. between 1906 and 1933.

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File contains records created in the production and publication of promotional photographs. Documents include: image captions for photographs of individuals, products, and war-related munitions work; picture files for photographs for the 1962 annual report; correspondence with external individuals requesting usage rights; correspondence regarding the Kodak commemorative stamp photographs, product images, and Kodak Ltd.'s coronation photographs; and photography release forms. Most records in file were unfortunately divorced from their accompanying photographs at some point during their life cycle.

File contains press releases and press kits prepared by Eastman Kodak Company communications department between 1976 and 1989. Most press releases pertain to Kodak products and provide tips on various forms of photography and subject matter. However, some releases pertain to events in Kodak's corporate history, such as corporate anniversaries. Eastman Kodak's Corporte Information department changed its name to Corporate Communicatons in 1979 and then to Communications and Public Affairs between 1983 and 1987.

File contains records related to marketing and communications for the 100th anniversary of the founding of Kodak Canada Inc. in 1999. File includes: centennial team strategic documents and timelines; Powerpoint presentation printouts; a presentation from Business Communication Service Ltd. related to brochure publication; correspondence with Alliance Atlantis related to broadcast advertising; centennial logos; inventories of images used in web advertising; an issue of Marketing Magazine from Dec. 1999; records related to the distribution of special edition Kodak T-550 Advantix cameras to employees; brochures; Mayor Mel Lastman's proclamation of Kodak Photo Week and Kodak Centennial Day; and other miscellaneous documents. Records likely belonged to Bonnie Chapman, who worked both in Corporate Communications and Public Affairs and as the Curator of the Kodak Heritage Collection and Museum.

File contains records related to Kodak Canada corporate events from 1953 to 1956. Includes: a program for the ninth annual Comptrollers' Conference, held at Kodak Heights, September 1953; records related to the 1954 George Eastman Centennial celebration for Kodak dealers; and an annotated photocopied image from the GTA Mayors' meeting, held at Kodak Heights on November 15, 1996. Records related to the centennial include the July 1954 commemorative issue of Rochester Commerce (vol. 41, no. 7).

File contains records related to the celebration of the George Eastman centennial at Kodak Heights. Includes: an orginal and two copies of a debriefing document created after the employee celebration which took place from September 30 to October 4, 1954; a debriefing document created after a celebratory Dealers' Night held at Kodak Heights; and a copy of the Eastman commemorative issue of Rochester Commerce (vol. 41, no. 7, 1954).

Item is 2 copies of a reproduction of a group photograph taken at the GTA mayors' meeting, held at Kodak Heights November 15, 1996.

File contains records pertaining to the Kodak Canada centennial open house, held at Kodak Heights on October 30, 1999 for kodak employees, retirees, and their families. File includes notes, correspondence, presentations, guidelines for participating departments, draft invitations, and other ephemera. Records likely belonged to Bonnie Chapman, who worked both in Corporate Communications and Public Affairs and as the Curator of the Kodak Heritage Collection and Museum.

File consists of two spiral-bound booklets produced as collective art projects by students at Pineway public school and Roywood school as part of the Creative Artists in the Schools program, sponsored in part by Kodak Canada Inc.

Item is a folder of information on various aspects of photography produced as part of Kodak Canada's schools program. Topics include camera care, film identification, depth of field, exposure controls, Kodak cameras, and others. Also includes photocopies of 2 Kodak Customer Service pamphlets on pinhole photography and photograms.

Item consists of a 2-volume compilation of the proceedings of the International Conference Linking Research and Practice, produced by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, edited by David Corson and Stephen B. Lawton. The conference was sponsored by Kodak Canada Inc. and the report was "produced using Kodak Graphic Arts Products." Kodak Canada president, Ronald Morrison, wrote the foreword to each volume.

File contains 2 invoices for poster printing and 1 invoice from the Canadian Broadcasting Company for photographs.

File includes photocopies of Kodak advertisements from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. The images were likely used as reference materials by Kodak Canada's communications department or by the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection and Museum.

This series contains photographic albums, b&w negatives and prints, colour negatives and prints, colour slides, glass plate negatives and transparencies originating from the Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection. These materials were used both as forms of documentation of the history of the company at various sites including Kodak Heights, Brampton, Montreal and Vancouver, as well as functioned as a working collection to use for promotional efforts. Highlights include: documentation of the construction of the Kodak Heights site circa 1915 in a series of commissioned albums and loose prints; documentation of the various operations related to the photographic and moving image industry including paper, film, and camera production and processing; marketing campaigns for digital initiatives; and a reference slide collection used by the Kodak Canada Corporation.

Photographic materials have been organized by format and within by the order created when processed in 2005. This arrangement was loosely based on the Kodak Canada's original organization of the files in their archives index. Files of photographs organized by the Kodak Canada Archives Index associated with the collection have been kept together, with the individual file numbers and index titles referenced in the Notes field of each record. Previously assigned reference numbers are indicated in the Archivist's Comments fields.

File contains six photograph albums documenting the development of the Kodak Heights property and the construction of the first Kodak Heights buildings during 1913-1916. These albums are consistent in their presentation and physical characteristics, including bindings, construction, and gelatin silver prints and includes inscribed captions in the lower right corner with the title and dates.

Each album is organized by building or site with indexed tabs to indicate the building or construction project. Prints are arranged chronologically within each section, presenting a detailed progression of the building projects from start to finish. Kodak Heights buildings documented include: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 as well as site projects including reservoirs, chimney, sewage disposal, trunk sewage, tunnels, plant nursery. Highlights include a series of images of the Canadian Battalion at Kodak Heights during WWI.

Several images are printed from the glass plate negatives in the collection.

A photographic album that documents the construction of the first Kodak Heights buildings during 1913-1915. Each gelatin silver photograph is the same size and contains an inscribed caption in the lower right corner of each print. This album includes images of the construction of Kodak Heights building no. 7 as well as miscellaneous construction subjects such as reservoirs, chimneys, and the plant nursery. Index tabs are: 6, 7, MISC.

Album is arranged according to building or site with prints ordered chronologically within each section, presenting a detailed progression of the building projects from start to finish.

The verso of a print in the Misc. section is stamped in ink with: Noted W.S. Austin.

A photographic album that documents the construction of the first Kodak Heights buildings during 1913-1915. Each gelatin silver photograph is the same size and contains an inscribed caption in the lower right corner of each print. Highlights include a series of images on the Canadian Battalion at Kodak Heights, an image of a sign announcing the new Kodak Heights facilities, and images of the construction of Kodak Heights building no. 1 as well as other site projects. Index tabs: Canadian Battalion, Nursery, Fence, Pile Driver, Chimney, Bldg. #1, Equip't, Coal Trestle, Water Soft'n'r.

Album is arranged according to building or site with prints ordered chronologically within each section, presenting a detailed progression of the building projects from start to finish.

A photographic album that documents the construction of the first Kodak Heights buildings during 1913-1915. Each gelatin silver photograph is the same size and contains an inscribed caption in the lower right corner of each print.

Album is arranged according to building or site with prints ordered chronologically within each section, presenting a detailed progression of the building projects from start to finish. This album includes images of the construction of Kodak Heights building no.3. Index tabs: Bldg. #3.

Album contains colour photographs of the 49th Annual K.D.M.C. Golf Tournament including images of the presentation of a Kodak Canada Yacht Club award.

Contains 6027 b&w negatives from the Kodak Canada Corporate Archives spanning the history of the company from 1900-2005. Negatives are organized by prior arrangement when processed, which was loosely based on the Kodak Canada's organization of the files in their archives index. Files of negatives originating from the previous index associated with the collection have been kept together, with the individual file numbers and index titles referenced in the Notes field of each record.

Item is a 35 mm negative featuring a portrait of a baby looking over his/her shoulder.

Location - Quebec

Location - B-3 3rd Floor

Location - B-7

Location - B-7 2nd Floor

File contains negatives featuring images of a gathering of men in suits. Table football is present in some of the shots.

Location - Table Top

Location - Table Top

Location - Auditorium

Location - TableTop Photography

Location - AV Studio

Location - Young and Rubicam Ltd.

Location - Various

Location - KCI

Location - KCI

Location - KCI

File contains negatives featuring images of a male Kodak employee showing building 3 Sensitizing Roll Storage. For prints see 2005.001.06.03.030.

File contains negatives featuring images of two male Kodak employees moving bars of silver nitrate from a forklift into a metal drum at building 14.