File contains to copy prints of the patent for a camera issued to George Eastman on September 4, 1888. George Eastman invented the first Kodak camera 100 years ago. He was issued US patent number 388,850.

Item is a print with the caption: The first Kodak camera brought photography to the public by reducing what had been a cumbersome process to "three motions."

Item is a print with the caption: Workers in the early 1900s assembling the Number 4A folding Kodak camera, considered to be the ancestor of all modern folding roll cameras.

Item is a print featuring an image with the caption: The first Kodak camera, introduced in 1888, sold for $25, loaded with enough Eastman film for 100 exposures. It produced a 2 1/2 inch diameter negative.

File contains contact sheets featuring Kodakery portraits of Alex McPhail, Paper Finishing, 25th anniversary.

Caption adhered to verso of print reads: George Eastman's contribution to society included improving the quality of the workplace by pioneering such concepts as wage dividends, retirement annuities, life insurance and disability benefit plans for employees.

File contains panoramic prints featuring images of soldiers standing in front of a building at Kodak Heights.

File contains two prints featuring images of a construction site.

Item is a print with an inscription that reads: "Reservoirs Sept 3rd 1915".

Item is a photographic print featuring an aerial view of Kodak Heights.

Item is a photographic print featuring an aerial view of Kodak Heights.

File contains photographic prints featuring aerial views of Kodak Heights taken in 1988.

File contains contact sheets featuring interior views of the warehouse at vuilding #11, the Distribution Centre at Kodak Heights.

File contains prints featuring images of the new 1000 ton chill water refrigeration system at the Kodak Heights Powerhouse (building #1).

File contains images of Kodak Heights building #1, the Powerhouse, and its machinery.

Item consists of a Kodak Super-XX film pack in original packaging with instructions for use inserted. Develop before date is May 1949.

Item consists of an 8, 12, or 16 exposure roll of Kodak Verichrome PAN film for black-and-white prints in original packaging. Develop before date is June 1976.

Item consists of a 24 exposure roll of 35 mm Kodachrome 200 High Speed Film for Color Slides in original packaging. Develop before date is February 1995.

Item consists of a 12 exposure roll of 35 mm Kodak Gold Plus 100 film for color prints in original packaging. Features a sponsorship symbol for the Victoria 1994 Commonwealth Games.

Item consists of two 25 exposure rolls of Kodak Advantix 400 advanced photo system film for color prints.

Item consists of an 8, 12 or 16 exposure roll of Kodak Verichrome Pan Film for Black-and-White Prints ASA 125 in original packaging. Develop before date is indicipherable.

Item consists of a developed spool of Kodak Verichrome Pan 620 Film. Seal reads "Printed in Canada". Paper casing is red, yellow and green.

Item consists of a flattened casing for a spool of Kodak Gold Super 200 35 mm film for color prints.

Item consists of an 8 exposure roll of Kodacolor II Color Negative Film for Color Prints C828 in original packaging. Develop before date is January 1977.

Item consists of a sleeve for two dozen 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch Eastman Kodak Co. Solio Paper for export. A sticker on the front of the envelope reads "Cochran / Photo Supplies. / Hamilton, Ont." and stamped on the verso (extremely faded) reads: "This paper will not be [illegible] for / any fault of manufacture after / APR 27 1900 / EMULSION NO. 18758 / PACKED BY NO. 26".

Item consists of an unopened 100 sheet pack of 4 x 6 inch Kodak Digital Science Distributed Medical Imaging Paper.

Item consists of a 2MB Kodak Picture Card. It could be used to store and share digital pictures. Works with standard CompactFlash ATA compatible digital cameras. In original packaging.

Item is an empty printed cardboard box for Kodak Azo F No. 2 sensitized photographic paper, produced by Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd. in 1942.

Item is a sealed package of twelve 5 x 7 sheets of Kodak Velox E2 single weight sensitized photographic paper, produced ca. 1943 by Canadian Kodak Co., Limited. Item is stamped with the expiry date Oct. 1, 1943.

Item is a kit for splicing 8mm and 16mm home movies. The kit includes a splicer, a 2 oz container of Kodak Film Cement, a container for water, a cleaning brush and screws (for securing the splicer to a rewind board).

Item is bottle of cleaner and lubricant used to remove dust and dirt from motion pictures film. Safe to be used with Kodak Sonotrack film.

Item consists of a black metal Kodak Film No. 10 Spool - 35 mm.

File contains three film cannisters and 2 film spools for Cine-Kodak 8mm film.

An early version of a spectrometer used to calculate the concentration of chemicals by the amountof absorption of light at certain wavelengths.

Item is a clear glass tray for developing photographic prints. A removable glass dowel holds the paper down so it remains inmmersed in the chemical solutions. Sold by the E. & H.T. Anthony company in New York.

Item is a brown glass bottle formally containing five pounds of acetic acid for photographic development. Manufactured by the Canadian Kodak Company, Ltd.

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.

Item is a transparent sheet printed with an Eastman Kodak Gammeter, a set of indexed graph lines. Gammeters were designed to aid in the dye transfer process by allowing the easy calculation of gammas (colour contrasts) from plotted curves.

Item is a contact printing frame, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company.

Item is a single contact screen in a printed cardboard folder, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company, used to produce half-tone images.

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.