RARE \"Kodak Founder\" George Eastman Signed 3X5 Card PSA/DNA Encapsulated For Sale

Up for sale RARE! "Kodak Founder" George Eastman Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This item is authenticated By Collectors Universe (PSA/DNA) and a second COA from Signature sales.

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George

Eastman (July 12, 1854 –

March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman

Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. Roll film was also the

basis for the invention of motion picture film stock in 1888 by filmmakers Eadweard Muybridge and Louis Le Prince, and a few years later by their

followers Léon Bouly, William Kennedy Dickson, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers,

and Georges Méliès. He was the Eastman School of Music, Rochester Philharmonic

Orchestra, and schools of dentistry and medicine at the University of Rochester and

in London Eastman Dental Hospital;

contributing to the Rochester Institute of

Technology (RIT) and the construction of several buildings at

the second campus of Massachusetts

Institute of Technology (MIT) on the Charles River. In addition,

he made major donations to Tuskegee University and Hampton University, historically black

universities in the South. With interests in improving health,

he provided funds for clinics in London and other European cities to serve

low-income residents. In his final two years, Eastman was in intense pain

caused by a disorder affecting his spine. On March 14, 1932, Eastman shot

himself in the heart, leaving a note which read, "To my friends: my work

is done. Why wait?"  The George Eastman Museum has

been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Eastman is the only person represented by two stars (both in film stars) in

the Hollywood Walk of Fame,

one in North side of the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard and

the other one in West side of the 1700 block of Vine Street, recognizing the same achievement, that he

developed, bromide paper, which

became a standard of the film industry. astman was born in Waterville, New York as the youngest child of George Washington

Eastman and Maria Eastman (née Kilbourn), at the 10-acre

(4.0 ha) farm which his parents had bought in 1849. He had two older

sisters, Ellen Maria and Katie He was largely self-educated, although he

attended a private school in Rochester after the age of eight. In the early 1840s his father had started a

business school, the Eastman Commercial College in Rochester, New York. The

city became one of the first "boomtowns" in the United States, based

on rapid industrialization. As his father's health started deteriorating,

the family gave up the farm and moved to Rochester in 1860. His father died of

a brain disorder on April 27th, 1862. To survive and afford George's schooling,

his mother took in boarders.

The second daughter, Katie, had contracted polio when

young and died in late 1870 when George was 15 years old. The young George left

school early and started working to help support the family. As Eastman began

to have success with his photography business, he vowed to repay his mother for

the hardships she had endured in raising him. n 1884, Eastman patented the

first film in roll form to prove practicable; he had been tinkering at home to

develop it. In 1888, he developed the Kodak camera ("Kodak" being a

word Eastman created), which was the first camera designed to use roll film. He

coined the advertising slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest"

which quickly became popular among customers.  In 1889 he first offered

film stock, and by 1896 became the leading supplier of film stock

internationally. He incorporated his company under the name Eastman Kodak, in

1892. As film stock became standardized, Eastman continued to lead in

innovations. Refinements in colored film stock continued after his death. In an

era of growing trade union activities,

Eastman sought to counter the union movement by devising worker benefit

programs, including, in 1910, the establishment of a profit-sharing program for

all employees. Considered to be a progressive leader for the times, Eastman

promoted Florence McAnaney to be head of the personnel department. She was one

of the first women to hold an executive position in a major U.S. company.

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