George Eastman, Kodak czar, sails for Africa – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: George Eastman, Kodak czar, sails for Africa, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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George Eastman, Kodak czar, sails for Africa
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Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, is the subject here, and the caption presents him as he set out for Africa in March 1926. By then he was among the most recognizable figures in American business, having turned amateur photography into a mass pastime with simple, affordable cameras and roll film. The African expedition was part of his wider interest in travel, wildlife, and the camera as a tool for recording distant places, and he later wrote about the journey in *Chronicles of an African Trip*. The print is a useful reminder of how closely the company's commercial success and the public's taste for travel photography grew together.
| Created / published | 1926 March. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Clothing and dress--1926; BI; Fashions; Shelf. Eastman, George, 1854-1932. Sources checked: Chronicles of an African trip. DT434.E2E3. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 741 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150370 |
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