Kodak
Eastman Kodak is US company founded in 1881 that popularized photography and dominated the photographic film market.
The Eastman Kodak Company ("Kodak") was founded in 1881 by George Eastman and Henry Strong as the Eastman Dry Plate Company. It was renamed Eastman Kodak in 1892. Their inexpensive cameras popularized photography, but Kodak concentrated on the supply of film and film processing and expanded internationally. In 1912, Kodak established the Kodak Research Laboratories with Kenneth Mees as founding director.
For more on Eastman Kodak see "Kodak" Wikipedia [1]
This article is limited to Kodak's direct contributions to documentation and information retrieval services.
The collection is varied, consisting of early business correspondence, photographs, advertisements and biographies of corporate officers through the years.
Further reading
On Kodak:
- Collins, Douglas. The story of Kodak. New York : H.N. Abrams, 1990.
- "IBM". Wikipedia [2]