Item 04: Althouse & Geiger photographs of buildings, products, exhibitions and displays, ca. 1920-1989

PXE 1514/Box 3

item

ca. 1920-1989

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera, Drawings

1036964

78 items (photographic prints and drawings) - various sizes

Photographs of buildings, products, exhibitions and displays, 1920s-1980s.
Rarely dated or attributed.

1. Althouse & Geiger offices, 4-level brick building / Phil Ward
Black & white photograph

2. Althouse & Geiger offices, interior, 4-level brick building / Phil Ward
Black & white photograph

3. Youth camp, diorama, unk coastal or lake location, hills in background
Black & white photograph

4. Australian Railways Union, painted trade banner, signed at lower right, Althouse and Geiger, 338 [?] Sussex Street
Black & white photograph

5-6. Floral arrangement [wallpaper design?]
2 black & white photographs

7. Althouse and Geiger, 338 Sussex St, 3-level masonry building, parapet dated est.1875
Black & white photograph

8. Welcome LBJ, banners, signage, Waltons, George St 1966 / by LCD
Colour photograph

9. Welcome LBJ, banners, signage, LBJ photograph, Waltons, George and Park Sts, from Town Hall corner, 1966 / by LCD
Colour photograph

10. Welcome LBJ, banners, signage, LBJ photograph, Waltons, George Street, 1966, illuminated night colour / by LCD
Colour photograph

11. Welcome LBJ, banners, signage, LBJ photograph, Waltons, George Strteet, 1966, illuminated night / by LCD
Black & white photograph

12. Stack and Company, Pontiac, Holden, Chevrolet dealer, display window and illumination, ca. 1948
Colour photograph [?]

13. Coca-Cola delivery truck, signage and corporate identity
Black & white photograph (ex-album)

14. You could win this L7500 Home Unit, Australian Womens Weekly promotion, and signage
Black & white photograph

15-16. James Quality Confectionery, delivery van, signage and corporate identify, Centennial Park in background / Norman L. Danvers
2 colour photographs, one mounted on card

17. Althouse and Geiger, company logo
Colour print

Also reproduced in Album (Item 1)
18. Union House, 247 George St, Althouse and Geiger cleaning building, ca.1938 [?] / Milton Kent
Black & white photograph

19. Kreisler Radio, 43 Alice St, Newtown, power wire wound resistors, signage/promotion / Russell Roberts
Black & white photograph

20. W. Hermon Slade & Co., trade display, hotel setting / B.B. Studios
Black & white photographs

21. Hudson, the wonder car, show card
Gouache and watercolour on paper

22. Rail car passenger interior, second class, Addis tooth brushes, show card over door
Black & white photograph

23. Gothic Revival building [Percy Marks building, 60-70 Elizabeth St], large metal ball atop false buttressing
Black & white photograph

24. Osram, building-scale mural “O for an Osram”
Black & white photograph

25. Osram, design for a building-scale mural on horizontal composition, “O for an Osram”
Black & white photograph

26-29. Cottee’s, Bourke to Burnie rally car no.234, paint/signage treatment
4 colour photographs

30-31. Maritime Services Board, parade float
2 colour snapshots

32-35. Gilbey Vintners (colour), Malgic rheumatic complaints, Alfred Snashall, Westmore Crystall building signage
4 snapshots, 3 black & white and 1 colour

36-39. Frank R. Wolstenholme, Wedderburn & Sons, Berger House, Vickers Gin Photographs of commercial signage
4 snapshots, 3 black & white and 1 colour (Polaroid)

40. Osram, building signage, 12+ storey building,”O for an Osram”, lower Clarence St (?), IBM building in background
Colour print

41-42. Maritime Services, parade float / Maritime Services Board of NSW
2 black & white photographs

43. “2KY Wireless radio, a country smile in the middle of your dial” with two kookaburras, building scale signage
Black and white photograph

44. Portrait photograph of signwriter, Goodyear tyre signage in background
Black & white photograph

45-47. Astor, Coles, Rotary International, commercial signage
3 snapshots, 2 colour (Polaroids), 1 black & white

48. York Motors illuminated signage, Chrysler, Plymouth, Morris dealer, full view of building by night lighting
Black & white photograph

49-51. Corio old whiskey, Robka vodka, Vickers gin, VDL gin & tonic, signage on panel van, Althouse and Geiger building in background
3 colour prints

52. Vincents APC, advertising card in passenger rail car, 2nd class
Black & white photograph

53-55. Dairy Frost ice cream cones, sundaes ; Alaskan charter fishing, Qld Govt Tourism Bureau
3 black & white photographs

56-58. Ford, Sydney Assembly Plant, outdoor signage and directionals
3 colour photographs (Polaroids)

59. Burnie Board and Timber Pty Ltd, trade display
Black & white photograph

60. Sydney Council, electricity promotion, trade display stand / James Howarth Studios
Black & white photograph

61-62. Anthony Horderns, “while I live I grow” signage in paddock with oak tree in middle distance ; “this bank is an official sponsor of the 1964 Australian Olympic Team” banner
1 colour photograph (Polaroid), 1 black & white photograph

63-64. Tray Bricks, “Made from rich creamy milk” ; Clown portrait face
2 black & white photographs

65-66. Astor, Waldorf Astoria cigarettes, signage on station wagon ; Illustration of castle with ghosts fleeting / Kintore Studios print black & white
1 colour photograph, 1 black & white photograph

67. Surf lifesaving boat, nearing shore, name on bow “Pontiac Chieftain” (a model of Pontiac motor car) / Consolidated Press Ltd
Black & white photograph

68-69. Freddie Simmons (1961), action photograph of signwriter with mawlstick and brush in hand identified on rear ; Caesar Fabrics commercial signage
2 black & white photographs

70. Althouse and Geiger interior of studio showing 7 signwriters at work with brushes and mawlsticks, signage visible incl. Bennett & Wood, Pettitt’s Cares, Highgates, Mc Nivens Ice Cream / Phil. Ward Commercial Photographer
Black & white photograph

71. Network, hatchback motorcar painted with trade name and slogan
Colour print

72. Fairfield Heights Chamber of Commerce
Colour decal (original)

73. Peters Ice Cream, Purity Personified
Original gouache 240 x 490 on paper (folded)

74. Franks Trading Co., building scale signage on 5 level building, Olympic Tyres illuminated signage atop building / Vic. Joyce Studios
Black & white photograph

75. Cravens delicious sweets from England, signage on large van, Centennial Park gardens in background / Norman L. Danvers Photography
Colour print

76. Althouse and Geiger offices/studio
Contact sheet of 7 images, black & white

77. Althouse and Geiger offices and studio, ute in front with Althouse and Geiger signage
2 colour prints

78. Stacks, design for Stack and Company trade display in Manufacturing Hall, Moore Park, Chevrolet, Holden, Pontiac
Original gouache on board

Copyright restrictions may apply: This collection has multiple rights owners
Rights and Restrictions Information:: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Collection listed and described by Dr Michael Bogle, 2014