Item MM 142570 Digital Image - Edgar Rouse & Family on Street, Toorak, 1940s

Summary

Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd executive Edgar Rouse with his wife and children, 1940s.

Pictured, left to right: John Layton Rouse, Julia Mary Rouse, Mary Constance Rouse (aka "Muff"), and Edgar Rouse.

It is possible that the family were on their way to a wedding or other event. The location of this photograph is possibly Clendon Road in Toorak, near St John's church which was is on the corner of Clendon and Toorak Roads.

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 two women standing on a tree-lined street in semi-formal clothes. The two women are wearing hats and wearing long gloves, and one is holding a handbag. The men are in suits and ties. Cars are parked in the background.

Physical Description

Digital file. Digital copy of an original photograph which was black and white, landscape orientation, mounted in upper window of framed mount board. Was originally framed with another photograph (MM142571).