c.December 1932 - No. 591. "BEACH AND PIER FROM RESERVE, COOGEE LOOKING S. - SYDNEY, N.S.W."

IMAGE INFO

- Photographer's viewpoint is looking south-south-west [from what is now known as Dunningham Park] on a heavily overcast day.

- I have dated this image to Circa December 1932, since the pier was closed to the public circa mid 1932 by order of Randwick Council (shortly before this pic would have been taken) - interest having died away rapidly after the grand opening in November 1929 due to expensive entrance fees & lack of development of promised on-pier attractions. The Coogee Ocean Pier was completely demolished by April-May 1934.

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SOURCE INFO

- One copy of a nitrate photo-negative film, 9 x 15 cm real photo postcard from the "Samuel Wood - postcard photo-negatives of Coogee, ca. 1928-1932 Collection". (The Collection's estimated vintage of 1928-1932 is out by some margin, since there are shots in this collection taken well after the Pier was demolished in mid-1934!)

- The original real photo postcard was digitized by the State Library of New South Wales.

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

collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nV2qgApn/gLD3v77VaLxJq

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CREDITS

- Samuel Wood (1876-1957) for the original B&W image & 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State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.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-Share Alike".

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PROCESS INFO

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

- Latest version enlarged & enhanced using topaz Gigapixel AI, Skylum Luminar Neo AI & Adobe Photoshop CS2.

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