Eastman Kodak Company
Also known as The Eastman Dry Plate Company (1881), Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company (1884), The Eastman Company (1889), Eastman Kodak Company of New York (1892).
Founder George Eastman, 1854-1932 (known for mass production of dry plates, first transparent photographic film)
Products Photographic equipment, including cameras, film and accessories; developing and printing services
Some Early Collaborators
Henry A. Strong (businessman, first president of Eastman Kodak)
William H. Walker (camera maker, 1885 patent with Eastman for Eastman-Walker Roll Holder for rollfilm)
Frank A. Brownell (camera designer for Kodak No. 1 and Kodak Brownie)
Gustav Milburn (camera constructor)
Henry H. Reichenbach (chemist, inventor of modern transparent rollfilm)
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (manufacturer of lenses for Kodak)
More Information
For further information on Kodak’s history see visit https://www.kodak.com/en/company/page/history.
For information and images about early Kodak facilities see Rochester: The City Photographic (1909)
The Trade Catalogs
Click the cover image to view the trade catalog in PDF format.
Ciné-Kodaks
1933
1940
Kodaks and Brownies 
1941
Kodaks and Kodak Supplies
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1935-1936
Kodak Baby Book Kodak Home Portraiture
Baby Book
Home Portraiture
Picture Taking At Night
1934
Kodak Professional Apparatus
1936
Kodak Picture-Making Aids
1940
Modern Kodak
n.d.
