Summary

Black and white photograph captioned 'Perth Building Showing Neon Sign at night', featuring a street view of the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd Store on Hay Street, Perth, circa 1930s, lit up.

This is one of a collection of fourteen photographs, mounted on cardboard album pages with captions, of Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd's retail store on Hay Street, Perth. These images are 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.

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.

Description of Content

Building exterior at night featuring recessed entranceways with internally lit display windows, signage above, including a vertical 'Kodak' neon sign. Car parked on street in right foreground.

Physical Description

Black and white silver gelatin photograph; portrait format with white border. Photograph is glued to a green-brown cardboard page with typed caption underneath.

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