Historical information

This photograph depicts Camp st in Beechworth looking east.

This postcard is part of the Rose Series produced by Victorian photographer George Rose’s business, the Rose Stereograph Company. George Rose (1861-1942), is considered one of Australia's best photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Rose Stereograph Company was founded in 1880 and became famous for producing stereographs, or stereoviews, which gave the illusion of being in 3D when seen through a hand-held viewer, a big craze of the era.

As stereographs lost popularity in the 1920s, Rose switched to production of postcards and decorative cards, and he and the photographers who followed took thousands of scenes around Victoria as well as interstate that became iconic images of Australian life.

Physical description

Black and white rectangular photograph (copy) printed on gloss photographic paper.

Inscriptions & markings

Obverse:
The Rose Series P.3469
Copyright
FORD STREET

Reverse:
BMM7744
PH150
1998.00059