Circa 1909 - No. 2850, "COOGEE BAY" by Charles Kerry, Sydney, Australia (restored colorized version)

IMAGE INFO

- The viewpoint for this historic & rare image is looking south-south-east from near the intersection of Arden & Bream Streets.

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SOURCE INFO

- The original photographer is most likely Charles Kerry himself (or one of his Kerry Co. photographers).

- The original silver gelatin dry plate glass negative (half plate) was digitized by the Museum of Applied Arts & Science & is available from the M.A.A.S. online Collection here:

collection.maas.museum/object/29098#&gid=1&pid=1

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SOURCE CREDITS

- Original photographer Charles Kerry.

- Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (aka Powerhouse Museum) New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.

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COPYRIGHT STATUS

- The original image is no longer restricted by commercial Copyright, per advice -

"Out of Copyright

Reason for copyright status: Created/Published Date is Before 1955

Material type: Photograph

Government copyright ownership: No Government Copyright Ownership".

- As for my own work in creating this unique cropped & duo-toned version of the original, I have applied a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike" Licence.

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PROCESS INFO

- I downloaded a copy of the digitized original (large file size & very faded with a lot of glass plate & emulsion damage).

- Using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows, I cropped the worst damage out & re-sized to 2:1 aspect ratio.

- I then removed numerous unwanted artifacts, restoring contrast, sharpness & tonal range.

- Colorized using MyHeritage In Color online processing.

- Post-colorization adjustments using Adobe Photoshop CS.

Done