Circa 1895 - "COOGEE BAY", Coogee, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (restored version)

IMAGE INFO

- Viewpoint is looking south-west from an elevated vantage point in Dunningham Reserve, located on the headland at the northern end of Coogee Beach.

- I have re-dated this image from circa 1890 to circa 1895, since:

(a) a cut stone seawall can just be seen skirting the beach (it was still a wooden picket fence in 1891!)

(b) electric tram system not visible - steam trams ran until 1902 (see later 1895 pic),

(c) there are no visible automobiles - only horse drawn.

(d) the people are clearly wearing late Victorian fashions &

(e) there are far fewer houses visible on the hillside that includes Beach, Arden & Carr Streets than in a later photo in this album which is dated to circa 1901.

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SOURCE INFO

- Original photographer is John Paine.

- The original was digitized & a copy archived by the State Library of New South Wales in their online collection here:

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

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CREDITS

- John Paine (photographer)

- State Library of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.

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COPYRIGHT STATUS

- Per SLNSW advice:

Out of copyright: created before 1955

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

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PROCESS INFO

- I downloaded a copy of the digitized original (small file size & very faded).

- Using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows, I significantly enlarged the image, re-sharpened, removed unwanted artifacts & applied an adjusted sepia duo-tone curve for better tonal depth.

Done