Historic archive of Kodak Ltd donated to the British Library and De Montfort University

"An unparalleled collection of documents and photographs charting the development of photography from a gentlemen's pursuit to a mass popular pastime has been donated to the British Library and De Montfort University. The Kodak Ltd Archive, dates back more than 120 years and represents a treasure trove of primary material for historians and researchers of the history of photography. Kodak Ltd's British company archives have been handed to the British Library and its research department's library of important photographic journals to De Montfort University in Leicester"