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ENVELOPE - FILM DEVELOPMENT AT M.A. LEWIS ARMADALE PHARMACY

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Overview

A rectangular beige envelope with white panels and black text. On the front of the envelope is a white panel with black printed text which includes the business name and spaces for the customer to fill in their contact details, i.e. name, date address and any special instructions. These sections have been filled in with blue pen. In the special instruction section a small square orange sticker has been attacked upside down saying [TWIN / PRINT].
At the top of the envelope is the opening with a flap that folds down over it. There is text and a white box divided into 9 smaller boxes on the flap.
On the back of the envelope is a white form with boxes outlining customer requests for ordering photographic reprints and enlargements.

Historical information

A Halse photograph envelope from Armadale Pharmacy on Third Road in Armadale. The pharmacy was owned by Mr M.A. Lewis and the photographs were developed for Mrs Whologan. Before digital cameras and camera phones became popular, in the early 2000's, photographers would often drop film of at local chemists who would develop it for them and print the images.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2018.14

Item type

Documents

Themes

People
Social History

Material

Paper

Width

150 mm

Height or length

263 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Envelope title [M.A.LEWIS / ARMADALE PHARMACY, THIRD ROAD / ARMADALE 6112 / 1137/8 / ONLY ONE FILM OR TYPE OF SERVICE PER ENVELOPE]. Title on the back panel [Halse / PHOTO SERVICE]

Keywords

ARMADALE Pharmacy

THIRD Road , Armadale

LEWIS M.A.

WHOLAGAN Alison May Ms

ARMADALE

Statement of significance

MEDIUM
The envelope would have held photo's developed for Mrs. Wholagan. The photographs were developed at Armadale Pharmacy located on Third Road in Armadale.
The envelope represents a type of businesses in Armadale in the 1980s that now longer exists (film development) and the role chemists played in the development of film for members of the public and the now specialised technology of film development.

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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