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Postcards from the Past, by Greg and Sylvia Ray

I've long been fascinated by postcards - especially old ones. They speak of a time when communication was a more leisurely business than it is today, and yet they symbolise the desire of people for quick and snappy means of staying in touch. Printed in vast numbers in the early years of last century, postcards were a collecting craze too, and many families still have old albums full of these intriguing ambassadors from the past. Our 13th book, Postcards from the Past, is a collection of cards depicting Newcastle, NSW, and its Hunter Region hinterland. The…

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Newcastle by Itself, 2000 – 2020

WHEN 2020 began with a storm of anxiety about fires, drought and the global pandemic, we found ourselves locked down and wondering what sort of book we should create this year. Sylvia had been talking for some time about putting together a book of contributed digital images - ever since a discussion about the potentially transient nature of digital data compared with the relative durability of old-school photographic negatives. I mean, in theory, digital data might seem more durable, but hard-drive failures, flash memory corruption and outright technological change suggests the opposite may be the case.…

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The Hunter Valley in the 1960s: on film

In 1961, when dairying was one of the Hunter Valley's major industries and it seemed that the valley's future would be as a food-bowl to the nation and perhaps the world, the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd decided it wanted to make a film about the wonderfully fertile and productive valley it called home. The idea came from company general manager Jack Scarr, who had attended a dairy congress overseas and was shocked at the lack of knowledge about Australia in general, and the Hunter Valley in particular. It was planned to use the film…

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