| Many of the photos used in early Kodak ads were prize winners from photo contests. They were imaginative, diverse, and accounted for a refreshing air of reality in Kodak advertising since the models were probably friends and family rather than professionals. A booklet with the 1911 contest winners is in the Kodakgirls section of the site. | |
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I purchased these two photos
from a dealer in California who found them among the contents of an unclaimed
storage bin. She writes: "The storage unit belonged to a person Gustoferson
... apparently she was a grandchild of Dorothy Gustoferson (Brotherton)
who is pictured in the photo. I can't tell which one. Dorothy's uncle
Bob Brotherton was apparently a photographer for Balboa Studios in Long
Beach Calif. He apparently took the picture and undoubtedly all the others that I have." |
| The label on the bottom of the print has the Kodak slogan, "All Outdoors Invites Your Kodak". The "Class 2" refers to the contest entry category. |  |