Summary
Scrapbook compiled by Kodak Australasia, contianing 28 archival items produced in the 1930s before World War II.
The archival items include advertisement proofs for Kodak products. The products and subjects include photographic film and papers, cameras and accessories, photographic film processing equipment, facsimile transmission and darkroom accessories. Some of the advertisements relate to Kodak products, but others promote Kodak services.
They include colour, and black and white promotional leaflets for Kodak products that were mainly made in Australia. The products and subjects include cameras, film, film processing, moving footage products and equipment, medical imagery and educational information on using Kodak products. The leaflets relate to Christmas and other special promotions. For example, "Invite the Brownie family this Christmas". They also refer to specialist products, for example "Bone Pathology - only Radiographs can provide definite diagnostic facts". The promotional materials range in size from 69 X 167 mm to 242 X 309 mm. This scrapbook is almost identical to HT 20571 regarding content.
Kodak manufactured and distributed a wide range of photographic products to Australasia, such as film, paper, chemicals, cameras and miscellaneous equipment. Its client base included amateur and professional photographers, as well as specialist medical and graphic art professionals who used photography, x-ray and other imaging techniques.
This scrapbook is part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005 when the Melbourne manufacturing plant closed down.
Physical Description
Large paper rectangular scrapbookwith brown paper pages containing magazine and press advertisements. Red plastic binding with hand written text in grey lead pencil in first top third of cover.
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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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Compiled By
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Abbotsford, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, pre 1939
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Inscriptions
Text, hand written, front; "AUST PRE-WAR SPECIMENT ADS"
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Overall Dimensions
285 mm (Width), 6 mm (Depth), 359 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Advertising, Cameras, Christmas, Healthcare & Medicine, Manufacturing, Photographic Film, Photography, Promotional Materials, Retailing, Scrapbooks