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Show EsisttmaifDs nessmen and educators of the day, as well as correspondence with four United States presidents. There is a correspondence with educator Booker T. Washington. Washington's Tuskegee Institute was one of many educational and charitable institutions to which Eastman donated millions of dollars over his lifetime. By HILARY APPELMAN Associat- ed Press Writer - ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) In 1889, George Eastman wrote to a colleague that the potential market for his new easy-to-ucamera and film was "immense." - U'There is more millions in it than anything else," the founder of Eastman Kodak Co. said. "If we can fully control it, I would not trade it for the telephone." "The story of Eastman's millions and his exceptional success in the fledgling photography industry is chronicled in the 45,600 letters he wrote and received from 1880 to his death in 1932. The letters were donated this week by Kodak to the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. It is the first time the collection has been made open to the public. The letters, some handwritten by Eastman in large, looping script, iiC 18 shelves of gray boxes and leather-boun- d volumes in a cellar at Kodak's Rochester headquarters. They provide insights into a broad from gljce of American history the specifications for a pair of carriage horses to Eastman's opinions on the layout of downtown Rochester, from legal and political issues to the development of modern photogra' phy. The collection includes letters to and from many of the most important inventors, photographers, busi - ar se Another correspondent was Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1927, Eastman donated a "Moving Picture Machine" to Roosevelt's Warm Springs Foundation for victims of Infantile Paralysis, so that doctors could record patients' movements. Eastman did not refrain from expressing his strong opinions in his letters. He vehemently opposed the U.S. government's policy of neutrality in the World War I, and was exasperated with auto magnate Henry Ford, a prominent pacifist. "This neutral talk makes me sick," Eastman wrote in 1915 to a friend in London. "And as for Henry Ford, he makes me sick and tired." Charles Apfelbaum, a New York rare book collector who helped appraise the collection, called the letters "one of the greatest archival collections in America." The collection was estimated to be worth $750,000, but appraisers said it could be worth more than $1.5 million if the letters were sold individually. "Rarely has the history and de- - SHOWTIME ng TWINState, DRIVE-I- 1255 S. Provo, rrt ruin - in iT N 374-052- Ninja 1 U lhA Tmuuo iri.-- ! JOE VERSUS THE O mmrm 1 75 NO. 2ND WE SAT. ONLY! ' m I I Z5Q Q ALL SHOWS IN In an 1898 letter written shortly after the American victory over the Spanish at Manila Bay, Eastman commented on the steady stream of lawsuits. "Everybody here is feeling jubi- lant over the first reports of the Manila victory," he wrote. "Peace extends only to private life, however. In business it is war all the time." Inrrnys 'fiftl wr J (PARENTHESIS) J Detective Burt Simpson thinks he's got two weeks to live. But il he can get killed in the line ot duty, his family will be set lor lile. Arii, f n Cathedral presents liturgical dance A u ii ii r SOUTH-ORE- I ii i i US) 309 E. 1300 forces with the choir of the Cathedral of the Madeleine, the Madeleine Festival Orchestra and the Salt Lake Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Mark Pearce in interpreting Durufle's d ; Requiem. The annual Madeleine Festi--vof the Arts and Humanities is presented as a public service to the Salt Lake City community by the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine. For further information call the cathedral office at The public is invited. All events (except the Award Dinner) are ; free of charge. The Madeleine Festival of the Arts and Humanities continues Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with a ballet titled, "Requiem: Infill iff Hinniin 41224-511- Industrialist George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Co., poses with one of the earliest Kodak cameras in 1890. Its mm ALSO i ii AP Laserphoto KIDS UNDER 12 FREE 7 BARGAIN PHlCfa 'Arrietrlcan life wwm ' I Page E5 from ordering of the business chemicals and inspecting construction blueprints to distributing dividends. "My regular business takes every minute day and night that I can spare from sleep," he said in an 1889 letter declining an offer to invest in another business. Eastman was a detail man in his personal as well as business life, whether writing a furniture maker with precise instructions for the design of his piano legs, reviewing the medical records of his cows, giving directions for the cultivation of corn on his North Carolina farm or ordering his favorite brand of Java coffee. An 1898 letter contained a list of specifications for the bicycle Eastman was ordering. "I have no use for a brake," he wrote. "I think they are very dangerous things." Despite its successes, Eastman's young company was plagued with legal wrangling over patent infringements, antitrust suits, and injunctions to stop former employees from stealing company secrets. VIE M Hey Vern! V & Turtles are Awesome W mZ VOLCANO , EflfflMMH.ii 1880 - man stayed involved in every facet and began their commercial manufacture. The dry plates were a great advance over the chemicals and water tanks that earlier photographers had to lug with them. The young industrialist, who had dropped out of school at age 14 to support his family, spent much of the next decade experimenting with lighter and more flexible substitutes for glass plates. In 1887, a chemist hired by Eastman found the emulsion he was looking for, one that was "quick and plucky and keeps." "The new film is the 'slickest' product we ever tried to make, and its method of manufacture will eliminate all of the defects hitherto experienced in film manufacture," he wrote to a colleague. "The new film anybody can work," he wrote to a dealer. It was absolutely certain that it would "entirely replace glass plates, at least for amateur work, at once or as fast as the goods can be made." By the end of the decade, Eastman had more orders than he could fill at his Rochester plant. "We could do double the business if we could turn out the goods," he wrote to his business partner, Henry A. Strong, in 1990. As the company expanded, East plates in FRI. EI Mi dry photographic mass-produci- "Cowabunga Dude!" t ' oo y Simsipstolls veloprnent of an important technical subject, photography in all its phases, been so dominated by one person," Apfelbaum said. "The history of 20th century photography is here in these files." 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