Promotional photographs of Australian fur fashion in New York

PXB 1768

fonds

1939-1944

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9665659

3 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 23 x 18 cm

Three press photographs documenting the promotion of Australian fashion in America in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

1. 'Wool takes over the seasons, fall to winter'
Australian Government Wool Exhibit, British Colonial Building, World’s Fair, New York, January 1939

2. 'Looks like beaver but it's not'
Australian possum coat previewed at Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, September 1943

3. 'Pert opossum'
Shorter-length Australian possum coat, 1944

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Title devised by cataloguer. Descriptive information from verso of prints.

Wet stamps to verso for Acme News pictures Inc.& for N.E.A. Reference Department. Short press statement with a description of the subject is pasted to the verso of the photographs.