Summary

Black and white photograph captioned 'Interior Plaza Arcade Shop Showing Entrance to Our Hay Street Shop' showing service counters and display cabinets and a set of stairs leading to the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd Store on Hay Street, Perth, circa 1930s.

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

Interior of store with service counter at left and glass display cabinets to the right and visible up some stairs at the rear of the room. There are photographic and illustrated posters around the sapce and sign above the door reading: 'THROUGH TO / KODAK & HAY ST.'

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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