Item 03: Althouse & Geiger Pty Ltd : painters, signwriters, silk screen printers, advertising & exhibition display specialists [album of original illustrations and photographs], ca. 1945-1959

PXE 1514/Box 2

item

ca. 1945-1959

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera, Drawings

1184403

'Althouse & Geiger Pty. Ltd. Painters Signwriters Silk Screen Printers Advertising & Exhibition Display Specialists' in gold stamping on leatherette album.
Includes Althouse & Geiger illustrated promotional material bound in 3-ring binder, original artwork in watercolour, tempera, photograph graphs and lithographic and other printed material. Location identified as Sussex Street, Sydney. Includes signs, brackets for signs, cut out letters, display units, exhibition work, fluorescent signs, letter types, legibility, metal work, murals, painting, pennants, plastics, 'Scotchlite', show ribbons, silk screen and signwriting. Most material undated, ca. post-1945 to the latest date noted 1959.

p.1 Table of contents

pp.2-6 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.7 Union House, George St, cleaning process / Milton Kent
Black & white photograph

p.8 Althouse & Geiger artwork

p.9 Hordern Bros, George St, decorated for Queen Elizabeth visit, 1954
2 contact prints, colour

pp.10-12 Althouse & Geiger artwork


p.13
Atlantic petrol station, signage
Black & white photograph
William A. Cooney, signage on motorcar
Black & white photograph
Leonard Refrigeration, signage on van,
Black & white photograph
Robbialic paints, signage, building
Black & white photograph

p.14 Althouse & Geiger artwork

p.15 Collins Bibles, display / W.F. Sedgwick
Black & white photograph

p.16 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.17 Grimley Ltd, signage on van
Artwork

p.18 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.19
Osram, billboard scale signage
Black & white photograph
Elder, Smith and Co., building signage
Black & white photograph
Streatfield Press, building signage
Black & white photograph
P & O, Union Line, building signage
Black & white photograph

p.20 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.21 Mural work
2 black & white photographs

p.22 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.23
Honour board
Black & white photograph
Robert Reid and Co, Ltd, selected retail signage
Black & white photograph

p.24 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.25 Johnson & Johnson, Tek toothbrush, illuminated signage
Black & white photograph

p.26 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.27 Heraldry

p.28 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.29 Letter legibility samples

p.30 Blank

p.31 Arrows in signage

p.32 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.33 May-Oatway Fire Alarms, mechanised signage

p.34 Rosella, signage on van

p.35 Australian Railways Union, banner
Black & white photograph

p.36 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.38 NASCO trade display and signage
Black & white photograph

p.39
Holden trade display and signage
Black & white photograph
Associated Film Printers, signage

p.40 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.41 Fluorescent lettering signage

pp.42-44 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.45
Water Board, display and signage
Black & white photograph
Scouting Association, diorama
Black & white photograph

pp.46-47 Scotchlite (3M) signage, Coca-Cola, Cottee’s, Shell, Scotch Tape, Exide, Craven A, VW

p.48 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.49 Brass plate signage, E S & A, Royal Insurance, General Insurance

p.50 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.51 Metal letters, Althouse & Geiger bldg, Hermann Haege Ltd bldg, Special Light Fittings shop
3 black & white photographs

p.52 Althouse & Geiger illustration

pp.53-55 Plastic letters, Paul’s Opals

p.56 Lighting brackets

57. Blank page

58. Althouse & Geiger illustration

pp.59-63 Selected signage examples, North American and elsewhere, p.59-63
A.D.M. Display units, available through Oswald Sealy, Australia, brochure (loose, p.63)

p.64 Althouse & Geiger illustration

pp.65-71 Silk screening, Barratts Licorice, Raynes, A & G, Woolworths, Hi-Top, Sea Hawk rod holder

p.72 Althouse & Geiger illustration

pp.73-74 Missing when received

p.75 `W' design

p.76 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.77 Show-cards, M.V. Manoora, Adelaide Steamship

p.78 Untitled illustrations

p.79 Yeronga, Wool Show display, 1959

p.80 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.81 Native Americans, large-scale painting in progress on canvas, location not identified
7 black & white photographs

pp.82-83 B.J. Ball showrooms [interiors], Kent St, includes painting of Burnie Mills
2 black & white photographs

p.84 Althouse & Geiger illustration

p.85 Cumberland County Council planning display, Town Hall, 1948
Black & white photograph

pp.86, 89 Stack and Company, motor show, Sydney Showground, 1955
Buckle Motors, display shown in foreground of Stack and Company (p.89)
2 black & white photographs of display and accompanying murals

p.90 Althouse & Geiger illustration

pp.91-92 Missing when received

p.93 “Ingola” fabric, Ingot Mills Royal Easter Show, display, 1957
Black & white photograph

p.94 Maritime Services Board, motorised parade float, Waratah Spring Festival, 1957
Black & white photograph

pp.95-102 Pennants, felt; blazer pockets, club costume badges, examples include Canterbury Bankstown AAC, Port Hacking Sailing Club, Dulwich Hill Amateur Bicycle Club, Methodist Ladies College, Souvenir of Canberra, White Bay Power Station, Balmain A.S.C. and many others

Perspectives for trade displays, BMC Astor Radio, BMC, W.S. Friend & Co. for Sydney Homes Exhibition, Ingot Mills, Humber Snipe, cyanotypes, unpaginated

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