Circa 1928 - No. 631 - "RESERVE & BEACH - CRONULLA, LOOKING N., SYDNEY, N.S.W.", Australia (restored sepia version)

IMAGE INFO

- Photographer's viewpoint is looking north from an elevated position.

- Note that the foreshore promenade only fronts Cronulla Park & the Cecil Ballroom & Cafe at this time. Later it will be significantly extended both north & south.

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SOURCE INFO

- One copy of a nitrate photo-negative, 9 x 15 cm real photo postcard from the "Samuel Wood - postcard photo-negatives of Cronulla, ca. 1928-1932 Collection".

- The original was digitized by the State Library of New South Wales

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

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

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CREDITS

- Samuel Wood (1876-1957) for the original B&W real photo postcard.

- Mitchell & State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.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 & duo-toned version from the digitized original, I have applied "Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike".

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PROCESS INFO

- I downloaded a copy of the digitized original (very badly faded with uneven exposure).

- Using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows, I enlarged by ~150% , repaired many artifacts, adjusted areas of uneven exposure, restored contrast & sharpness & used an adjusted sepia duo-tone curve for better tonal range.

Done