Summary

Colour poster advertising Australia's 150th anniversary celebrations in 1938 and promoting a £55 competition for photographs made with Kodak cameras during the celebrations.

The poster is held in a scrapbook compiled by Kodak Australasia. The scrapbook contains 37 colour, and black and white promotional leaflets, posters, stickers, negative and print envelopes, postal packaging for the Australian Photographic Review magazine, and trade circulars produced before World War Two. The leaflets promote point of sale, merchandising and advertising material, sales campaigns and sales tips for Kodak dealers. They also promote specific Kodak products such as film and cameras, processing services, as well as advertising the Kodak International Salon of Photography. In addition, various leaflets promote photographic competitions and celebration sales for Australia's 150th anniversary celebrations.

This poster is part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials and working life artefacts from the Kodak factories in Melbourne. This collection dates from the late 19th century to the early 21st century and was acquired in 2005 when the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory in Coburg closed down.

Physical Description

Colour poster featuring red, yellow, blue, black, green and white backgrounds and text. Australian, British, Norwegian and other flags are illustrated. It has been pasted into a page of Kodak Scrapbook HT 19942.The bottom of the poster is folded under to fit into the scrapbook page.

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