Summary
Photographic card presented to guests as a memento of their tour around the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory at Abbotsford, circa 1950s. It features some text and a colour aerial photograph of the facility.
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 object is part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005 after the manufacturing plant at Coburg had closed down the year before.
Physical Description
Card, cream medium weight card with inset for colour photograph and note printed on cream light weight paper with dark brown ink.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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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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Organisation Depicted
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Southampton Crescent, Abbotsford, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1950s
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Inscriptions
Inscriptions, printed: 'Thank you for coming... / We are very proud of our opportunity to have shown you something of / [...] / The Director / Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd.'
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Photographic products, Promotional materials
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions - Open
310 mm (Width), 115 mm (Height)
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Overall Dimensions
153 mm (Width), 108 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Factories, Manufacturing, Photography, Postcards, Promotional Materials, Aerial Photographs, Factory Visits