page_title: George Eastman
section_title: Honors and commemorations
hierarchical_section_title: George Eastman / Honors and commemorations
caption_attribution_description: English: George Eastman 3-cent stamped First day cover issued by USPOD in 1954 - This image is from a photo taken of an original first day cover.
context_page_description: George Eastman 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 the world's first 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 a major philanthropist, establishing the Eastman School of Music, and schools of dentistry and medicine at the University of Rochester and in London Eastman Dental Hospital; contributing to the Rochester Institute of Technology and the construction of several buildings at the second campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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.
context_section_description: In 1930 he was awarded the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal.
  In 1934, the George Eastman Monument at Kodak Park (now Eastman Business Park) was unveiled.
  On July 12, 1954, the U.S. Post Office issued a three-cent commemorative stamp marking the 100th anniversary of George Eastman's birth, which was first issued in Rochester, New York.
  Also in 1954, to commemorate Eastman's 100th birthday, the University of Rochester erected a meridian marker near the center of Eastman Quadrangle on the campus of the University of Rochester using a gift from Eastman's former associate and University alumnus Charles F. Hutchison.
  In the fall of 2009, a statue of Eastman was erected approximately 60 feet (18 m) north by northeast of the meridian marker on the Eastman Quadrangle of the University of Rochester.
  In 1966, the George Eastman House was designated a National Historic Landmark.
  The auditorium at the Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University is named for Eastman, in recognition of his inspiration to Swalm.
caption: A first day cover honoring George Eastman 1954
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