Following the cyber-attack in October 2023, the British Library's Archives and Manuscript catalogue is back online. For researchers wishing to find the Kodak Historical Collection, Fay Godwin's photographs, and the Talbot collection alongside the wider photographic materials related to South Asia, you can use this link: https://searcharchives.bl.uk/?f%5Bcollection_area_ssi%5D%5B%5D=Visual+Arts
In the last year, we've been focusing on improving access to the Kodak Historical Collection and in particular the Kodak News archive, which spans from the late 19th century through the early 2000s. Since the start of this new project, our cataloguer has prepared approximately 9000 records. These will be made available via the Archives and Manuscript platform in due course.
The new cataloguing of photographic material (negatives, photographic prints, glass plates) specifically looks at the material from the Kodak Research Division of Kodak which was based at Harrow from 1928-2000s - and some of the projects that were developed including Harold Edgerton's 'Kodatron' with Eastman Kodak in 1939 and Kodak's involvement with Spacelab, a resuable laboratory developed by the European Space Agency (ESA).
For access and enquiries, email us at apac-prints@bl.uk.
Top image: An unidentified woman who was employed in the Kodak Research Division in the 1950s, British Library, Kodak A3146/27(8).
