Summary

Scrapbook that was compiled by Kodak Australasia. It contains approximately 300 archival items produced 1967-1973.

The items include promotional leaflets and clippings for Kodak products. The products and subjects include film, film processing, Retina and Instamatic cameras, moving footage cameras, printers, micro-film equipment, medical and dental x-ray imaging equipment and processing, industrial x-ray equipment, and educational information on using Kodak products. The promotional materials range in size from 54 mm x 80 mm to 203 mm x 335 mm. Some of the advertisements relate to Christmas or holidays.

Advertising leaflets and clippings relate to the following publications:
Aircraft, Apollonia (Dental Alumni Society), Articulator, Australian, Australian Dental Journal, Australian Financial Review, Australian Journal of Pharmacy, Australian Radiology, Birthplace, Business Age, Centaur (Tasmanian University Medical Students Society), Federal Guild Contact, Federated Pharmaceutical Guild, Financial Review, Hospital Administration, Hospital & Health Administration, Journal Royal Children's Hospital, Karyon, Matrix, Medical Journal of Australia, Medical Journal of Australia Advertiser, Mouth Mirror (Journal of the Melbourne Dental Students Society), National Hospital, Nungari (University of New South Wales Medical Society), Queensland Radiology, Radiographer, Reflex (Western Australian Medical Students Society), Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Perth Hospital Magazine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Journal, Sight and Sound News, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney University Medical Journal, Sydney University Pharmacy Year Book, The Age, Testing, Instruments and Controls, Trephine.

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 at Coburg closed down.

Physical Description

Large paper rectangular scrapbook with 100 paper pages plus paper front and back cover, bound with 5 metal staples, containing magazine and press advertisements. The advertisements, mostly in black and white, some in colour, were printed on white paper as half page, full page and smaller clippings. Some are leaflets and some are clippings. The advertisements were adhered with sticky tape, some are loose. The scrapbook pages have been numbered by hand with black ink. A typed and partly hand written index is located on the front cover.

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