Between July-October 1921 - No. 196, "PANORAMA OF CRONULLA BEACH", Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (restored duotone version)
- SLNSW Flickr page image is here www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/31538708464
- You can also see the original very high resolution digitized image held at the SLNSW, using their wonderful panorama viewer here dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au/pano-scope/view.php?p=40&fr=9999
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IMAGE INFORMATION
- Panoramic view is centered looking east-south-east from the upper balcony of the Cecil Hotel.
- I have re-dated this image to specifically between July-October 1921 (rather than the SLNSW's guess-timate of 1930) because of the following researched facts:
(a) The Cronulla Beach sea wall commenced construction in October 1921. Clearly, there is no sea wall construction visible in the image!
(b) The large art-deco concrete main change rooms seen today were commenced in circa 1922, when the sea wall was completed. Again, they are nowhere to be seen. These two facts alone rule out a photo date any later than October 1921.
(c) The sign for HART'S CAFE & DINING ROOM is clearly seen in Gerrale Street. Newspaper advertisements for the cafe first began to appear in July 1921. So the rationale is that the date must logically be sometime between when the HART'S CAFE newspaper ads first appear & the commencement of the massive sea wall beach re-construction.
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IMAGE SOURCE & CREDITS
- Credits go to:
(a) the photographer Milton Kent, for his wonderful & historic original nitrate photonegative.
- the Mitchell & State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing & archiving these great historical records & making the digitized images freely available in both their Pano viewer & on their Flickr page.
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COPYRIGHT STATUS
- The original image is no longer restricted by any form of Copyright, per the State Library of New South Wales Flickr page advice -
"No Known Copyright Restriction"
- As for my own work in creating a substantially re-worked & restored duotone version of this rare & unique historical image & uploading it to Flickr for education & review, I have applied Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike" copyright.
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PROCESS INFO
- I downloaded a full size copy of the original panorama from the SLNSW's Flickr page.
- Using Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite, I restored density, contrast, sharpness & spot repaired some badly over-exposed/underexposed sections & a lot of fine scratches, then applied a dark sepia duotone curve.
Between July-October 1921 - No. 196, "PANORAMA OF CRONULLA BEACH", Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (restored duotone version)
- SLNSW Flickr page image is here www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/31538708464
- You can also see the original very high resolution digitized image held at the SLNSW, using their wonderful panorama viewer here dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au/pano-scope/view.php?p=40&fr=9999
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IMAGE INFORMATION
- Panoramic view is centered looking east-south-east from the upper balcony of the Cecil Hotel.
- I have re-dated this image to specifically between July-October 1921 (rather than the SLNSW's guess-timate of 1930) because of the following researched facts:
(a) The Cronulla Beach sea wall commenced construction in October 1921. Clearly, there is no sea wall construction visible in the image!
(b) The large art-deco concrete main change rooms seen today were commenced in circa 1922, when the sea wall was completed. Again, they are nowhere to be seen. These two facts alone rule out a photo date any later than October 1921.
(c) The sign for HART'S CAFE & DINING ROOM is clearly seen in Gerrale Street. Newspaper advertisements for the cafe first began to appear in July 1921. So the rationale is that the date must logically be sometime between when the HART'S CAFE newspaper ads first appear & the commencement of the massive sea wall beach re-construction.
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IMAGE SOURCE & CREDITS
- Credits go to:
(a) the photographer Milton Kent, for his wonderful & historic original nitrate photonegative.
- the Mitchell & State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing & archiving these great historical records & making the digitized images freely available in both their Pano viewer & on their Flickr page.
*******************************
COPYRIGHT STATUS
- The original image is no longer restricted by any form of Copyright, per the State Library of New South Wales Flickr page advice -
"No Known Copyright Restriction"
- As for my own work in creating a substantially re-worked & restored duotone version of this rare & unique historical image & uploading it to Flickr for education & review, I have applied Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike" copyright.
*******************************
PROCESS INFO
- I downloaded a full size copy of the original panorama from the SLNSW's Flickr page.
- Using Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite, I restored density, contrast, sharpness & spot repaired some badly over-exposed/underexposed sections & a lot of fine scratches, then applied a dark sepia duotone curve.