Summary

A poster featuring 7 photographs of the Kodak House, the Kodak Australasia retail outlet on Elizabeth Street, Hobart. The photos are primarily low angle, street views of the front facade and upper floors, complete with signage.

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 7 colour photographs (5 portrait format and 2 landscape format) with white borders. The photographs feature low angle, street views of a Kodak shop, specifically the windows and upper stories of the building with red and yellow Kodak signage. The photographs are glued in two rows across the page.

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