Item HT 20002 Poster - Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, 'Snapshots Come Out Best on Kodak Film', circa 1930s

Summary

Poster featuring a large colour illustration of a woman holding a Kodak camera and Kodak film, with the catch phrase 'Snapshots Come Out Best on Kodak Film'. This would have been distributed by Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd to Kodak dealers and sales teams in the 1930s for display in their stores or shop windows.

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.

This document is part of the Kodak Heritage Collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd in 2005, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.

Physical Description

Colour poster, folded to fit inside book. It features an illustration of a blonde woman at the beach in playsuit and sandals, holding a large straw hat, two boxes of Kodak Verichrome film, and a Kodak folding camera.