Photographic print, black and white, Atlantic Union Oil 'City of the Future' exhibition at Royal Agricultural Show, paper, designed Charles Frederick Beauvais, photograph Russell Roberts, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1947

Shows crowd viewing the model of the city of the future designed by Beauvais. Photograph is stamped "A Russell Roberts Picture" on the back.

Russell Roberts Pty Ltd was a company specialising in advertising production services (photography, display, artwork and film production) Sydney. (See NGA object - advertisment for Russell Roberts  - https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=91156)

(See also the Thesaurus term for the individual Russell Roberts (b. 1904  d.1999) a Sydney Photographer)

Office located at Warwick Building, 15 Hamilton Street, Sydney, New South Wales (2009/85/1-18)

 It was established in 1932. The company was started by Russell Roberts (b. 1904  d.1999) a Sydney Photographer.  He was also an art photographer. 

Other photographers who worked at the studio included Martin Munkascsi and Hans Hasenpflun.

Shades of Light: Photography and Australia 1839-1988
Gael Newton, 1988 Australian National Gallery

Russell Roberts Pty Ltd

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Oil company which used designers such as Charles Beauvais and Douglas Annand to design advertising. Beauvais model of the 'City of the Future' was created for Atlantic Union Oil in 1947.

Atlantic Union Oil Company Limited

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Industrial design

97/195/1-2/1 Photographic print, black and white, Atlantic Union Oil 'City of the Future' exhibition at Royal Agricultural Show, paper, designed Charles Frederick Beauvais, photograph Russell Roberts Pty Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1947

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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'City of the Future' exhibition by Charles Frederick Beauvais and photographed by Russell Roberts Pty Ltd

Object No. 97/195/1-2/1

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