Happy New Year

Wishing You the Compliments of the Season

This very Australian image of children at the beach must have been a unique holiday greeting for those experiencing winter on the other side of the world in the early years of the twentieth century.

Postcards were one way in which the landscape views so favoured by the Kerry studio gained further popularity. Photographer Charles Kerry, who had a monopoly on the lucrative postcard trade in New South Wales, had his best selling cards reproduced by collotype in Germany and then shipped back to his Sydney studio.

The process of producing a greeting card was slightly more complicated before the advent of digital technology, as can be observed in details of this plate. A photographic negative was printed, mounted and then embellished with graphics and text before it was re-photographed and finally printed as a card.

Photography by Charles Kerry
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Post by Kathy Hackett, Photo Librarian