George Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he patented and sold a roll film camera, making amateur photography accessible to the general public for the first time. Working as the treasurer and later president of Kodak, he oversaw the expansion of the company and the film industry.
Eastman in 1917
Eastman's boyhood home, relocated from Waterville to the Genesee Country Village and Museum
Portrait of Eastman by Paul Nadar, 1890
The Kodak factory and main office in Rochester, c. 1900-1910
The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak, is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorporated in New Jersey. It is best known for photographic film products, which it brought to a mass market for the first time.
Headquarters in Rochester, New York
Kodak 35mm film cartridge alongside Asahi Pentax film camera. The shift from film to digital greatly affected Kodak's business.
Kodacolor II 126 film cartridge, expiration year 1980.
The Kodak factory and main office in Rochester, c. 1910.
