Summary
A poster featuring 8 photographs of both the Kodak Australasia Queen Street Retail Service Centre and St Paul's Terrace warehouse in Brisbane. Each photograph has a typed caption glued beneath it.
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 8 colour photographs (4 landscape format, 4 portrait format) with rounded corners. The photographs are arranged in two rows across the page, each with a small typed caption glued beneath them.
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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 - Queensland, Greater Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, circa 1976
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Inscriptions
Handwritten, black ink: 'BRISBANE' Label, typed, black ink: '1. Queen Street Retail / Service Centre...7. General view of building to show / retail lettering.'
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Overall Dimensions
508 mm (Width), 332 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Photography, Retailing, Marketing, Advertising, Advertising Signs, Promotional Materials, Warehouses, Shopfronts