Cape Town Lens: 10 April 1937 – “STREET SCENES AT COOGEE”, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (restored sepia version)

A Cape Town False Bay tagged image from photographer – aussiejeff as published on Flickr.

10 April 1937 – “STREET SCENES AT COOGEE”, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (restored sepia version)

Image by aussiejeff

IMAGE INFO
– The original version of this photo was taken for a Mr Mulray, who commissioned Samuel Hood while Sam was on assignment shooting various scenes around the Coogee area.
– The photographer’s viewpoint is looking east along Neptune St, across Beach Street South, with Coogee Bay & Wedding Cake Island in the background.
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SOURCE INFO
– 1 x 35 mm film photo-negative (copied from an original nitrate photo-negative)
– The original photo was digitized by the State Library of New South Wales from the donated original.
– 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 Hood for the original B&W image.
– 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State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.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 sepia version from the copy of 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 publicly available digitized original.
– Using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows, I enlarged by ~94% , adjusted areas of uneven exposure, restored contrast & sharpness, removed many unwanted artifacts & applied a sepia duo-tone curve for improved contrast & tone range.