McNiven’s Ice Cream Company, Camperdown, NSW
1950-1959. Twelve (12) vintage silver gelatin photographs and five items of printed ephemera in a leather spiral-bound folder, most with typed caption on backing below image, one photograph with “Brogan Bros” studio stamp verso, 7.8 x 5.3cm to 15.5 x 21cm (photographs). Slight silvering, scuffing and handling creases to photographs laid down on old backing. Photographs include a McNiven’s Royal Show exhibit, which “sells more ice cream than any other individual ice cream bar in the Commonwealth of Australia”; Mr C.R. McNiven, managing director, handing over a cheque to The Spastic Centre; and an event in Sydney with children acting as “Ice Cream Tasters” for a new flavour, “Caramel-Twist”, which led to an “ice cream riot”, with police intervention. Printed ephemera includes a pamphlet titled “Reprints of impressions gained by Mr C.R. McNiven during his recent world tour and published in The Australasian Confectioner, Ice Cream and Soda Fountain Journal”; a price list effective from 31.8.1959; and a colour pamphlet for McNiven’s new ice cream confection, the “Triple Treat.” McNiven’s Ice Cream was acquired by Unilever in 1959. Ref: Cairns Post, 30.3.1950; Unilever.
Item #CL194-146
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