Summary
Group portrait of the Kodak Girls Club gymnastic team at the South Street Ballarat gymnastics competition in October 1922 where the team was awarded several prizes.
This portrait was printed in the very first volume of the Kodak Works Bulletin, May 1923, pp5-6.
The group were members of the Kodak Girls Club Physical Culture Class. They wore blue and white tunics, and toured places such as Footscray, Caulfield, Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong giving exhibitions.
Mrs Annie Ford is second from the left in the back row. The photograph was donated by Mrs Ford's son to the Kodak Australasia museum.
This image 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.
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
Group portrait of 38 women posed in a four tiers, the front row are seated on stools. Most are wearing a mid-length dark dresses with light detailing around the skirt, arms and neckline. The back three rows are turned on an angle and have their hands rested on the woman standing to the right. The portrait appears to have been taken outdoors in a garden, there is a corrugated shed in the distance.
Physical Description
Black and white photograph mounted to a decorative grey board.
More Information
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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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Place & Date Depicted
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oct 1922
This portrait was printed in the very first volume of the Kodak Works Bulletin, May 1923, pp5-6, and the text suggests the image was taken in October 1922 at the South Street gymnastics competition in Ballarat. The donor of this image to Kodak's museum suggested it was taken in 1920, however the Girls Club was not formed until July 1921 and considering the Works Bulletin information 1920 is an unlikely date. -
Individuals Identified
Ford, Annie
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Hand written in grey pencil on the back of the photograph; 'JOAN HUNT / MUSEUM'
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Photographic products, Sports teams
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
200 mm (Width), 155 mm (Height)
photograph
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
305 mm (Width), 250 mm (Height)
mount board
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Keywords
Photography, Industry, Manufacturing, Sporting Teams, Gymnastics, Women's Work, Portraits, Sport, Staff Relations