10 April 1937 - "STREET SCENES AT COOGEE", Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (restored sepia version)

IMAGE INFO

- The original version of this photo was taken for a Mr Mulray, who commissioned Samuel Hood while Sam was on assignment shooting various scenes around the Coogee area.

- The photographer's viewpoint is looking east along Neptune St, across Beach Street South, with Coogee Bay & Wedding Cake Island in the background.

****************************

SOURCE INFO

- 1 x 35 mm film photo-negative (copied from an original nitrate photo-negative)

- The original photo was digitized by the State Library of New South Wales from the donated original.

- The digitized original is available from the SLNSW online collection here:

digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps...

******************************

CREDITS

- Samuel Hood for the original B&W image.

- Mitchell & State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.

******************************

COPYRIGHT STATUS

- Per SLNSW advice:

Out of copyright: created before 1955

- Regarding my own work in creating this unique, cropped & restored sepia version from the copy of the digitized original, I have applied a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives" Copyright.

*******************************

PROCESS INFO

- I downloaded a copy of the publicly available digitized B&W original [very grainy].

- Latest version enlarged & enhanced using topaz Gigapixel AI, Skylum Luminar Neo AI & Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Done