Summary

A poster featuring 4 photographs of the Kodak Australasia retail outlet on Brisbane Street, Launceston. Each photograph has a hand drawn street section map beneath it with a notation to indicate the angle of view and a Kodak sticker to identify the location of the Kodak shop.

This poster is one of nineteen handmade posters featuring street views and close ups of signage at different Kodak Australasia retail outlets and warehouses around Australia, including Adelaide, Launceston, Hobart, Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Perth, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Townsville and Cairns.

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 poster 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

Cardboard poster with 4 portrait format, colour photographs with rounded corners. The photographs feature street views of a Kodak shop. The photographs are glued in one row across the page and beneath each one is a small, hand drawn map with a Kodak sticker used to indicate the shop location.The fourth photograph was glued at a slight angle.

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