Kodak memorabilia

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I just visit my parents' place (Dad worked for Kodak Canada for 36 years, so there is Kodak related stuff everywhere ).

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I have a few Kodak items. My personal favorite is a box of 4x5" Kodachrome from the 1940s. Aside from about a dozen old Kodak cameras between myself and my fiancee Monique, I have a small Kodak brown glass bottle with a yellow cap (she and I collect glass bottles too...), several old photo paper boxes (actually those are used for print storage), a Vericolor III 100' bulk 35mm film can, several boxed rolls of Kodachrome Type A 40 speed slide film, and some odds and ends I can't recall right off hand that live inside the bulk film can. Some other odd photo items I have are a Pentax pocket knife and a Nikon wrist watch. Monique collects Polaroid pack and roll film cameras too...

We need therapy, or more shelf space.
 
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I had a thick glass 16 oz graduated beaker that had Kodak embossed on the bottom - it looked like an old one. I said had, because I cracked it like a dumb-ass while heating water in it a few months ago. I also have an old Kodak solid rubber squeegee.

Also, 1 unopened roll of Ektar 25 in freezer w/the tamper evident seal over the cap (expired: 1994); small unopened can of Dektol on my darkroom shelf, I don't know how old that is, 35 years maybe.

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I have a few things...I pick them up as I come across them. My favorite is the Kodachrome insulated lunch box. Maybe we can get Sean to set up a dedicated image area for people to post their film related collectibles. One of my other favorites was not intended to be a "collectible", but that is what it has become:
 
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John;

Great collection.

Guys, the train station in Whitefish Montana has a showcase of photographic memorabilia. I have some digital snapshots of the material with a venerable box of Ansco film dead center.

Here it is. Oh, the bottom shelf has some other products and there is a can of Molle shave cream to the left of the Ansco box.

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kodak stuff

Hi,

Googled around and found this forum to try and find an answer to this question, what is this stone box I found? It has raised letters at the top "60 YEARS IN HOLLYWOOD," centered is a picture of a landscaped building with eastman kodak company lettered on the building, and a large raised letters on the bottom right: "EASTMAN?"

Thanks to whomever may answer, VETACTOR.
 
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Try contacting the George Eastman House Museum of Photography in Rochester NY. They probably have the answer to this one.

PE
 
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They were green in our area and refrigerated.

In fact, the Kodak Park color was green for trucks, vans, equipment and uniforms.

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Ron,

Do you still wear yellow uniform in everyday use ? I would not work in a place everyone looks like an clown
 

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like kermit

agx, look at his other designs , that was the worst I have ever seen from him.
 

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I have seen some of his others. And yes, this one is weird (I got no idea why those letters are somehow cramped to that base.)
The handwriting makes me think of the ad intended for the arabic market.
It must be made around 1925.
 
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I know of no memorabilia. I know the people who worked on it and they have one of the camera systems on display at GEH.

I was part of a group that watched one of the lunar probes land on the moon. The last frame transmitted was 1/2 frame due to the impact.

So sorry, no such thing AFAIK. The kinds that were made were applicable to many people at Kodak Park. Things like Veterans, or all color film workers or all workers on developers (I'm making these up, but you get the idea). The group that worked on the film and camera was very small.

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They have quite a display of analog memorabilia in the train station at Whitefish MT. It contains items from many companies that we remember such as Ansco and others.

I find that some of my photos are memorabilia too. I have a print of Ed White with his zot gun floating in space over Baja CA, printed from the original negative. The identical print was sold at auction for a huge amount. I wonder if the purchaser knew how many of these were made and that they came from internegatives made from transparencies?

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Couple items I have:

Kodak branded yellow canvas shopping bag from their centennial
Small pocket knife/nail file with Kodak stamped in yellow on one side

The bag has a hot air balloon like this:


Image found on EastmanRoadRace.com in the 1980 archive.
 

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I've got the usual stuff that an ex-Kodaker would have but also a couple of personal type items -- a brick from the demolished Bldg-50 paper mill and the building sign from the demolished Bldg-62 paper mill. As for something archival -- an unopened pack of Solio Paper (24 postcards) with an expiration date of May 5, 1917.
 
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