Public · Rochester
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14 July 1917
Eastman tenders Kodak Park
George Eastman offers the Army a Kodak Park building and instructors. The Army turns him down. That refusal is the paper trail’s first dated line.
Public start · 1917–1919
Bulletin · Rochester, N.Y.
Underwraps
The paper trail. First public Rochester defense-photo contract, through the arsenal years, to the handshake that is not merch.
The handshake
Burbank
Builds the plane
Lockheed · Kelly Johnson · OARFISH
Rochester
Makes and washes the film
Kodak Park · Chapman · Lincoln Plant
Washington
Reads it
Eisenhower · Dulles · Bissell · AQUATONE
Kodak never signs the Lockheed airframe contract. The Skunk signing is in Burbank. Rochester’s contract is film and the wash.
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