The Rose Stereograph Company: a snapshot
Anybody in Australia who pays even a little attention to old postcards will soon encounter some of the products of the Rose Stereograph Company. The publishing output of this long-lived firm (which operated from about 1880 until it went into liquidation in 2017) was phenomenal, and when the remains of what must have been a vast photographic archive went on sale in June 2021 with Lloyds Auctions, it attracted media attention across Australia. A young George Rose, taking a photograph. From the book, George Rose, Australia's Master Stereographer, by Ron Blum. According to a brief history…