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Eastman Kodak over the years The Eastman Kodak Co. was founded by George Eastman in 1892. Since then, the photo innovator has brought the camera to the everyday consumer, helped launch the motion picture industry and helped introduce pictures of the moon to the world. On Jan. 19, Kodak filed for bankruptcy, becoming another casualty of the ever-changing technological world.
Inventor and philanthropist George Eastman is photographed in Rochester, N.Y., in 1921. Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Co. in 1892.
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The first Brownie camera, circa 1900, manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Co.
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Eastman, left, and Thomas Edison pose with their inventions in a photograph taken in the late 1920s. Edison invented motion picture equipment and Kodak invented roll film and the camera box. Their inventions helped create the motion picture industry.
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Miss Kitty Kramer, the first Kodak girl, is shown using the No. 2 Kodak Camera in 1890, in Rochester. N.Y.
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Two of Eastman Kodak's most successful cameras, a Brownie Special Six-20, left, circa 1938 to 1942, which sold for $4, and the Pocket Instamatic 20, which sold for about $28 in 1972, are shown Jan. 12, 2012. Eastman Kodak invented the hand-held camera and helped bring the world the first pictures from the moon.
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Thomas DiCesare of Kodak's Electronic Photography Division examines a print from Kodak's XL 7700 digital continuous tone printer at the company's Rochester, N.Y., plant in 1989. The machine used Kodak thermal technology to produce photographic quality prints or slides from computer-generated images. It sold for between $18,895 to $24,895.
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A woman uses a Kodak camera and film vending machine in this undated photo in Rochester, N.Y. Photography icon Eastman Kodak teamed up with Maytag in 2001 to roll out thousands of camera-and-film vending machines. They wanted to satisfy instant cravings for a must-have snapshot in away-from-home places such as a beach, park or ski resort.
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George Fisher, the Kodak chairman, president and chief executive officer in 1996, watches some of the company's new ad campaigns during a press briefing in New York on May 1, 1996.
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Fisher displays one of the three new consumer films on Jan. 31, 1996 in Los Angeles. Eastman Kodak Co. announced a complete line of Advanced Photo System products designed to make photography easier and increase enjoyment of pictures.
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A Kodak representative holds the high-resolution DC2010 digital camera, which can capture enough detail for a photorealistic 5x7-inch print, during the Comdex trade show Nov. 19, 1997, in Las Vegas. The camera, with a retail price of $899 and total output resolution of 1 million pixels (1152x864), could capture 16 to 60 pictures on a 4 megabyte card that was included with the camera.
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A model presents a "large format Inkjet printing" system by Kodak at the Imprinta 97 exhibition in Duesseldorf, Germany, June 3, 1997. It was a new true color and non-washable Inksystem for large poster sizes.
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Chinese tourists sit on benches sponsored by Kodak, in Beijing's Forbidden City on April 3, 1998. Kodak announced the week before that it would invest more than $1 billion in China in the next few years.
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Eastman Kodak Co. employee Doug Kanous assembles a Kodak NexPress digital production printer at the graphic communications plant in Rochester. N.Y., on Aug. 1, 2006. The company, undergoing a tough transition to digital photography, posted a wider loss of $282 million in the second quarter, its seventh quarterly loss in a row. In contrast, graphic communications sales jumped 14 percent to $908 million.
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Eastman Kodak, rounding the final bend in a four-year digital overhaul, swung to a $37 million profit in the third quarter on Nov. 1, 2007, as digital revenue almost tripled and wider profit margins overshadowed a slight drop in overall sales.
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Old Kodachrome slides are seen in Clarence, N.Y., on Sept. 4, 2008. Eastman Kodak retired its most senior film after 74 years in the company's portfolio because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age. The glory days when Eastman Kodak ruled the world of film photography lasted for more than a century.
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In this undated photo, a Kodak technician displays image sensors embedded on a silicon wafer at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N.Y.
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People leave Kodak headquarters in Rochester, N.Y., on Jan. 5, 2012. The company said on Jan. 10 that it has realigned and simplified its business structure in an effort to cut costs, create shareholder value and accelerate its long-drawn-out digital transformation.
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A roll of Kodachrome film sits next to digital media flash cards Jan. 6, 2012. Eastman Kodak ruled the world of film photography for over a century. Then came competition from Japanese firms in the 1980s and a shift to the digital technology it pioneered but couldn't capitalize on. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Jan. 19.
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The Eastman Business Park is pictured in Rochester, N.Y., on Dec. 23, 2011. George Eastman's century-old legacy of entrepreneurship now rides on the lesser-known Eastman Chemical Co. That was hardly the case in 1994, when Eastman Kodak spun off its chemicals business to help pay down debt. At that time, Kodak was still a colossus in photography whereas Eastman Chemical was a small player very much in its parent's shadow. But because of a sea change in digital technology and different approaches to business, Eastman Chemical's stock market value has since increased 71 percent to $5.5 billion today, while Kodak's has plummeted 99 percent to about $185 million.
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