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James Francis Hurley business card
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JFH: James Francis Hurley
a wonderful card about the new Central Railway Station
a great photo of people and Sydney's new Central Railway Station |
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This time the same photograph as published by Frank Hurley but it has not been identified as being a Hurley postcard.
The speculation is that it is a photograph sold on by Hurley.
It is identified on the rear as being published by C.B & Co. |
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same card as above
but with the Xmas and New Year Greeting |
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a JFH greetings card
besides the real photo cards all the publishers produced these composite cards.
They usually came with some form of special greeting, smaller versions of photos from other cards as well as one of those little pieces of prose. |
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the visit of the US Great White Fleet
was a major event in Sydney |
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the US Great White Fleet |
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the anchor and copyright |
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the anchor and copyright |
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the anchor and copyright
same as previous
but not hand coloured |
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the anchor and copyright |
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the anchor and copyright
same as previous
different format |
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Hurley captures an important political moment in NSW |
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another important event in Australia
Empire Day 1909 |
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Empire Day 1909 |
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JFH: James Francis Hurley
and the famous postcard:
The Steel Track
and of course |
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Hurley said that this postcard
"The Steel Track" was a huge seller.
The photo seems to have been used by other publishers. |
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After Henry Cave and Frank Hurley parted company, Cave may have published using the letter C to identify his cards.
Cave's postcards indicate that maybe he continued to use previously shared images, most likely taken by Hurley.
Note the number C. 104 |
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Here is another postard that has the same image and the same writing by Cave and the same number, but this time the card has been altered to be a card by Star Photo.
Was this because Cave became Star Photo or worked for Star or sold everything onto Star Photo? |
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again by Star Photo.
Maybe not such a good colourist! |
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Hurley seemed to have had a good and on-going relationship with the publisher Giovanardi.
Here Giovanardi has published the Hurley 'Steel Track' as his own under the title: Signal Box - Night - Sydney R. Station.
and to finish this little story - just see what the sender of this card has said..
WARNING - if you are an Australian and get easily offended - then please close you eyes! |
(please note the spelling is as written on the above original card)
How do you like this P.C.
I work near where these signals is.
I have to cross these lines every morning to my work.
These are the biggest in Australia so you can guess they are a long way behide in times here but they dont think so
they are very ingorant class of people is the Australians.
they think they are the best in everythink especially sport.
What price cricket. |
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there are more train postcards? |
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and more trains? |
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and more ? |
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and there are more versions of this card.. |
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a variation on the former
and then it is taken over by Hurley |
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a variation on the former
and using the same number |
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another variation
this time being used as a
New Year greeting |
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with the anchor/copyright
and for a variation |
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a theatrical portrait postcard
complete with Hurley's own stamp on the rear:
such a personality card or even a studio portrait by Frank Hurley at this time is unusual. |
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Around 1905 Frank Hurley, being a 20 years old and with some initial successes in photography, joined the firm of Henry Cave. This firm most likely was a publishing firm producing the usual range of stationary items as well as postcards.
There are conflicting stories about how he entered into the business. The most popular, and the most doubful, was that his father bought a share of the business for Frank. The suspicion is that this version is just another part of the history og Frank Hurley as documented by Frank himself later in life. Although it must alos be remembered that Mr Hurley Senior was in the publishing trade himself, being a senior figure with the NSW Government Printer, so he would have known Henry Cave.
The reality was more likely that Frank, with his father's encouragemnet and blessing, joined the firm as the main photographer. Cave and Hurley then jointly put their branding on the postcards.
The partnership did not last too long with Hurley going his own way and establishing his own reputation and style of postcards.
As for Henry Cave, his career after the Cave and Hurley is not documented. I suspect he produced his own postcards for a while using C. as his signature. Curiously the photographs seen to date indicate that he may have used the same stock photos, possibly those taken by Hurley. Note this is speculation.
There is a series that indicates that on one occasion, his C postcard were altered to become Star Photo postcards. So the questions become: Did he work for Star Photo? Did he sell photographs onto Star Photo? Was he in fact Star Photo? |
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The Anchor Postcards
we are not sure who did these but many of the images are very Hurley like as well as the occasional image that is defintely Hurley. |
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This is speculative.
once Henry Cave and Frank Hurley parted company, Henry Cave seemed to have continued to be a publisher of postcards.
This time using the C. as his signature.
He also continued to use some images from the Hurley partnership. Not sure what this means. |
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This photograph being used here is the famous photo used in postcards produced by Frank Hurley: |
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The same image was published earlier as a Cave and Hurley postcard. |
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This greeting card uses the same image
as used previously by Cave and Hurley. |
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