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Sending up a balloon, c.1925

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Modern marketing – attracting attention to a product in a new way.  Here in 1925, the British American Tobacco Company are sending up a balloon to advertise ‘Hatamen’ cigarettes (Pa01-33).  The location is not verified, but it may well be … Continue reading →

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Metropole Hotel, Shanghai, 1930 上海新城饭店老照片

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

This photograph (BS-s11) of the Metropole Hotel under construction, is from the British Steel Archive Project, in Teesside, from whence came the girders for the building’s steel frame.  The Metropole was designed by Palmer and Turner, and was built on … Continue reading →

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You press the button, we do the rest

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Here then is ‘the rest’: at this Kodak Professional School in Shanghai in 1923, students are learning to spool and process negatives, enlarge, develop, fix and dry prints, then guillotine and dry mount them – the skilful practical application of … Continue reading →

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