Summary
Poster promoting Kodak cameras as gifts, with the catch phrase 'The Christmas gift worth giving is the one you'd like to keep! Give A Kodak'. It features Kodak cameras and prices, an illustration of a woman in a bathing costume with a hat and Kodak camera and film, and a black and white photograph of a couple in towel robes.
This poster would have been distributed by Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd to Kodak dealers and sales teams in the 1930s for display in their stores or distribution to their networks and customers.
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 illustrated list of Kodak cameras and prices, a black and white illustration of a woman in a bathing costume with a hat and Kodak camera and film, and a black and white photograph of a couple in towel robes, all against a colourful blue, red, green and yellow background.
More Information
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Ms. Kate Metcalf - Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, 2005
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Acknowledgement
Courtesy of Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd.
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Issued By
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Australia, Australia, circa 1930s
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Overall Dimensions - Unfolded
565 mm (Length), 446 mm (Width)
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Keywords
Advertising, Photography, Photographic Products, Sales, Marketing, Promotional Materials, Cameras, Posters, Christmas