Summary
A poster featuring 7 photographs of the Kodak House, the Kodak Australasia retail outlet on Elizabeth Street, Hobart. The photos are primarily close ups of the retail signage, plus a street view and rear view of the building.
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 landscape format, colour photographs with white borders. The photographs feature close ups of Kodak House signs, plus two photographs in the lower centre of a street view and a rear view of the building. The photographs are glued in three rows across the page.
More Information
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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
Hobart, Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Hobart, Greater Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, circa 1976
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Inscriptions
Handwritten, black ink: 'HOBART'
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Overall Dimensions
508 mm (Width), 338 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Photography, Retailing, Marketing, Advertising, Advertising Signs, Signage, Shopfronts