Daily Herald Photograph: Making photographic prints

One photograph showing a worker making prints from amateur negatives at a photography factory, likely Kodak. Image includes crop marks.

In photographic works, such as the Kodak Factory at Harrow, women worked in semi-darkness developing and printing amateurs’ negatives. By 1932, 400,000 rolls of film were developed and more than 4 million contact prints were made by the Kodak Factory, in the UK alone. Amateur photography relied on a skilled workforce to develop the thousands of rolls of films that were posted back to companies to be developed.