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Negative – H.J. Heinz Co, Woman Teaching Indonesian, Dandenong, Victoria, 04 Feb 1960

Place
Melbourne
Subject
Category
Keywords
Australia
Tutors and Tutoring
Current holder
Link
Item number
MM 137606
Access rights
Digitised
Country of origin
Language
Period of reference
1960-02-04
Description from source
Summary
One of approximately 85,000 negatives from the Laurie Richards Collection taken by the Melbourne based Laurie Richards Studio between the 1950s -1970s.

Laurie Richards was a professional photographer who began his career as a photo-journalist, working for the Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide, and the Argus and the Herald newspapers in Melbourne. In 1953, he opened his own business and set up a photographic studio at his home at 4 Tower Avenue, Alphington, an inner suburb of Melbourne. At its peak, in the late 1960s, the Laurie Richards Studio was one of Melbourne’s pre-eminent commercial photographic studios, employing twelve photographers. The Laurie Richards Studio worked mainly in advertising and public relations, and had a broad clientele which included commercial companies, government institutions and the entertainment industry.

Description of Content
Promotional image of a woman teaching Indonesian to a man at the Heinz factory in Dandenong. She is pointing to a board with the inscription, ‘You Thirsty? Kamu Haus Tidak? Selmat Pagi’. There is another man standing behind the board.

Organisation Named
H.J. Heinz Co Pty Ltd, Dandenong, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 04 Feb 1960

Photographer
Laurie Richards Studio, 4 Tower Avenue, Alphington, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Inscriptions
Hand written in white ink on negative below image: ‘GX8797’

Dimensions
125 mm (Width), 100 mm (Height)
Physical format
Photographs
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