Summary
A poster featuring 4 photographs of the Kodak Australasia Retail Service Centre in Cairns, Queensland. The photographs are street views, focusing on the 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 4 colour, landscape format photographs with rounded corners. Each photograph has a typed caption glued beneath it.
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Collection Names
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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
Cairns, Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd - Queensland, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, circa 1976
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Inscriptions
Handwritten, black ink: 'CAIRNS' Label, typed, black ink: 'ENAMEL SIGN ON PARAPET / CAIRN BRANCH / APPROXIMATELY 10 FEET IN LENGTH / " 3 feet in WIDTH / " HEIGHT OF LETTERS 2 FEET. / NEGATIVE No. 9. / ...NEON SIGN / UNDER AWNING.... CAIRNS BRANCH / FACING NORTH / APPROXIMATELY 8Ft. IN LENGTH / 20 INCHES IN WIDTH / HEIGHT OF LETTERS 16 inches. / NEGATIVE No. 2.'
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Overall Dimensions
508 mm (Width), 336 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Photography, Retailing, Marketing, Advertising, Advertising Signs, Promotional Materials, Shopfronts