Contrasts & Comparisons
The Beach in the 19th Century

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1 Anon
(Young Men Posing for the Camera at Clovelly? Beach), c.1890s. Albumen paper print, 14 x 20cm.

$890
2 Government Printer
(Surfing at Coogee Beach), c.1890-1900. Silver gelatin print, on tinted paper, 25.3 x 34.2cm. Some creasing bottom edge, and minor tears.
Close view of surfers and bathers on Coogee Beach from the southern end looking North towards Coogee Aquarium.
$950
3 Charles Kerry
Ocean Beach, Manly, c.1890s. Albumen paper print, signed & titled in the plate, 15 x 20cm.
Showing three rows of recently planted Norfolk Island pines.

$490
4 Charles Kerry
Coogee Beach (showing the Aquarium), c.1890s. Albumen paper print, signed & titled in the plate, 14.5 x 19.4cm.

$490
5 Henry King
Aquarium Ground, Bondi, NSW, 1880. Albumen paper print, signed & titled in the plate, 15 x 20cm.
Really Tamarama.

$990
6 John Paine
Coogee Bay, 1880s. Albumen paper print, titled & initialled in the plate lower right, 13.2 x 19.5cm.
View from northern end looking towards South Coogee, with only a few houses on the hill.

$590
7 Photo Co.
Fun in the Briney. Manly near Sydney, c.1890s. Albumen paper print, signed & titled in the plate, 14 x 20cm.
Large group of bathers in water.

$890

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