Summary

Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd Managing Director Edgar Rouse with his wife Mary (Muff), daughter Julia Mary and friends at the Champagne Bar at the London Casino, attending a performance of 'Latin Quarter' in 1950.

Pictured left to right: Edgar, Julia Mary, Mary, unknown, unknown.

Edgar, his wife and their daughter had taken a world tour in 1950, leaving Melbourne on the ship the 'Aorangi 'on Thursday 26 Jan 1950. They first visited New York, in the USA, where they were the guests of Mr. Rouse's sister, Marjorie Lucey, and no doubt Edgar conducted Kodak business at Kodak headquarters in Rochester, upstate New York. After three months in the United States the group went to London and Europe.

Edgar Rouse was a managing director of Kodak Australasia from 1928, and later succeeded his father John Joseph (JJ) Rouse in 1938, who had been a co-founder of Baker & Rouse and then a founding managing director of Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd.

Description of Content

Two men and three women in evening wear, holding glasses of champagne in front of the champagne bar. The men both wear glasses and the man at far right holds a hat. The two older women wear fur trimmed coats.

Physical Description

Digital file. Digital copy of an original photograph which was black and white, landscape orientation, in red and white cardboard folder.

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