Tuesday, 25 June 1901 - "COOGEE BAY", Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (restored version)

IMAGE INFO

- Viewpoint is looking south-south-west from an elevated vantage point located at the northern end of Coogee Beach.

- In the foreground, some fishermen are pulling their boat onto the beach (the small crowd nearby is probably bidding for some of the catch!).

- Date is confirmed as 25 June 1901 (date & title penciled on the original paper envelope containing the glass slide). Note that electric trams were not introduced until 1902.

- The photo was taken on a quiet winter's Tuesday. Unsurprisingly, there are hardly any people at the beach.

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SOURCE INFO

- Original image is a glass plate negative (11.0 x 8.5 cm. quarter plate) captured by photographer Mark James Daniel (1867-1949)

- The original was digitized by the State Library of Victoria using a Phase One H.25 digital camera -

Capturefile: D:\glass neg raws\LTGN 34\box 18\bc000469.tif

CaptureSN: CC001681.089448

Software: Capture One PRO for Windows

- The digitized original is available from the SLV online collection "Mark Daniel's photographs of family, friends, scenes and events in Melbourne, 1898-1907" here:

handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/22342

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CREDITS

- Mark James Daniel 1867-1949 (photographer)

- State Library of Victoria for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.

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COPYRIGHT STATUS

Per SLV advice:

- This work is out of copyright (pre 1955).

- Regarding my own work in creating this unique cropped, restored & duo-toned version from the digitized original, I have applied "Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike".

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PROCESS INFO

- I downloaded an HD copy of the digitized original (very badly faded & underexposed).

- Using Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 8.0 I cropped the image copy for better framing, restored contrast, adjusted sharpness, removed numerous artifacts & used dark sepia duotone for better tonal range & density.

Done