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referentie code
2005.001.08
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Datum(s)
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1896-2005 (Vervaardig)
- Archiefvormer
- Kodak Canada Inc.
Fysieke beschrijving
Fysieke beschrijving
29 m of textual records
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Institutionele geschiedenis
Canadian Kodak Ltd., which became Kodak Canada Inc. in 1979, manufactured photographic films, papers and equipment for over a century in Toronto, Ontario. The company formed the Canadian branch of the successful Eastman Kodak Company, and officially opened its doors in 1900 at 41 Colborne Street under the direction of John G. Palmer. The company expanded and moved to 588 King Street West in 1908, but already plans were underway for an expansive complex to the north of the city. In 1912, Canadian Kodak purchased 25 acres of farmland near Weston Road and Eglinton Avenue to build a major manufacturing facility known as Kodak Heights. By 1925, there were over 900 employees working in seven buildings at Kodak Heights. Over the years, the company earned a reputation for having a cooperative and supportive relationship with its employees, adopting many of the successful practices in place at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York. In 1940, an Employee's Building was constructed to accommodate the activities of the flourishing Recreation Club, the Department Mangers' Club, and the Kodak Heights Camera Club. During the 1990s, the rise of digital media began to have a serious impact on manufacturing programs at Kodak facilities around the world, causing the Eastman Kodak Company to reduce its production of traditional print photography by one third globally. The company chose to focus on digital products, which did not require the extensive facilities used in the production of traditional photographic materials. On December 9, 2004, Kodak Canada Ltd. informed its employees that manufacturing operations in traditional film products would cease entirely at Kodak Heights. The company's facility faced the same fate as many of its foreign counterparts in England, Australia and France, being completely abandoned and demolished shortly after closure in 2005. Kodak Canada still maintains a sales and support office in downtown Toronto, while the manufacture of traditional photographic chemistry has returned to Rochester.
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Bereik en inhoud
Series consists of unpublished textual records produced as a result of the day-to-day operations of Kodak Canada from 1896 to 2005. Records pertain to the company's corporate operations, financials, plant, equipment, and supplies, communications, human resources and industrial relations activities, employee activities, and Heritage Collection and Museum. Series includes notes, correspondence, ledger and account books, financial statements, reports, recipes and instructions, contracts and agreements, publication drafts and mock-ups, lists and inventories, and other manuscript, typescript, and computer-created textual materials produced by Kodak Canada employees, contractors, and correspondents.
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Materiële staat
Fair to good.
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Ordening
As with the collection as a whole, the original order of the textual records was lost over the course of the transition of these records from Kodak Canada Inc. to Ryerson University Archives & Special Collections. In processing the textual records, an attempt has been made to recover the original order by arranging the records into corporate functional units, which constitute the textual records sub-series, and by preserving physical or conceptual connections between related or proximate records. Within the broad series constituted by functional units, records were divided into files and, occasionally, sub-sub-series on the basis of the kind, subject, or creator of the records.
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Open. Records are available for consultation without restriction.
Termen voor gebruik, reproductie en publicatie.
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Naam ontsluitingsterm
- Kodak Canada Inc. (Onderwerp)