Photographic prints and negatives, Rousel Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, c 1886 - 1930s

Photographic prints and negatives showing work undertaken by the Sydney signwriting and graphic design business, Rousel Studios. The images primarily document the wide range of commissions undertaken by the firm including large painted wall signs and billboards, pub mirrors and posters, and exhibits at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

Sydney signwriting and graphic art business mainly known as Rousel Studios, but which also traded at various times as Henry Rousel, Rousel & Co, Henry Rousel Studios, Rousel Signs Pty Ltd, and Rousel Screen Printing Pty Ltd. The business was begun by Julius Henry Rousel (1865-1929) in 1890 and for most of its existence was located at 38 - 42 Oxford St, East Sydney. After Henry Rousel's death in 1929 the business was conducted by his two sons, Roy (Jules Henry Roy) (1897 - 1986), and Harold (1899 -). In 1974 the family sold the signwriting side of the business, although it continued to trade as Rousel Signs Pty Ltd until 1993. Rousel Screen Printing Pty Ltd remained active until 2002 but was deregistered in 2005.

Rousel Studios

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Advertising signs

Graphic design

Signwriting

2002/105/1-2 Photographic prints and negatives, Rousel Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, c 1886 - 1930s

Opaque photographs, usually positive, usually on paper, and generally, but not always, printed from a negative. Use `Negative prints' for prints in which the tones or colours are reversed from their appearance in nature.

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Photographs of promotional displays created by Sydney's Rousel Studios

Object No. 2002/105/1-2

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