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Photographer R. G. Sands of Albany, W.A. ?

beachcomber australia That's our man, there are some catalogue records (no images yet) for some other panoramas by Sands in the collection of the State Library of Western Australia. Would be interesting to compare!

Not too sure with this GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/UirRQ ?? Perhaps someone else can find a better one. Trouble is the more I look, the more I want to go there - King George Sound looks magical.

Read All About It! - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/83526996 And (drumroll ...) vividly described by A. B. "Banjo" Paterson in the SMH 8/12/1914 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15546804

Ha! Much better GoogleMapsStreetView, closer to Albany, see the islands in the middle - goo.gl/maps/7a2fL

article on the process of photochrom: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom "A litho stone is coated with a thin layer of purified bitumen dissolved in benzene. A reversed half-tone negative is then pressed against this light-sensitive coating and an exposure in daylight made (taking from 10–30 minutes in summer, to several hours in winter). The bitumen hardens and becomes resistant to normal solvents in proportion to the light. The coating is then washed in turpentine solutions, removing the unhardened bitumen. It is then retouched in the tonal scale of the chosen color to strengthen or soften the tones as required. Each tint needs a separate stone bearing the appropriate retouched image, and prints are usually produced by at least six, and more commonly from 10 to 15 tint stones.[4]"

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