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Latest Photo Restorations

  

Category:  Photography & Art

Via:  a-macarthur  •  10 years ago  •  8 comments

Latest Photo Restorations

5055_discussions.jpg?width=750 The Neptune Fountain in Berlin, Germany in 1903; it has since been restored and moved to another part of the city. That makes this photo historically important!

5056_discussions.jpg?width=750 Guernsey Cow on Holly Beach, New Jersey in 1895. Holly Beach is now Wildwood. Does anyone know why a farmer would take his cattle to the beach? Oh wait, I think one is wearing a two piece.

5057_discussions.jpg?width=750 Passengers on an Observation Car, Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, c. 1915. A clue to identifying this was the newspaper being read by the passenger at the right. When I scanned and enlarged the image, it directed me in the research!

As I've note before, these are tedious to restore and ready for publication, but knowing that most are one-of-a-kind makes it a labor of love.

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Larry Crehore
Freshman Silent
link   Larry Crehore    10 years ago

Great photos AMac keep em coming!!

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
Professor Guide
link   seeder  A. Macarthur    10 years ago

Am I being boycotted or somethin'?

 
 
 
Larry Crehore
Freshman Silent
link   Larry Crehore    10 years ago

Not sure, why you want to be?Grin.gif

 
 
 
TTGA
Professor Silent
link   TTGA    10 years ago

Hardly Mac. We're simply running out of superlatives to describe your work, so we just sit back and enjoy it. After all, how many times can we say "super job" before it loses meaning? You can safely bet, though, that we're out here watching and that we love it. You're bringing a great deal of enjoyment to those of us who like old pictures, even if we don't comment much. The cow seems to be wearing one of those fur bikinis that I've heard about.

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
link   Kavika     10 years ago

Once again Mac, there are few words left to describe the wonderful restoration work that your doing, on these one of a kind photos.

Keep them coming my friend.

Walking the cows in salt water will help heal any injuries to their hoofs and legs. It's done with horses all the time.

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
link   sixpick    10 years ago

Am I being boycotted or somethin'?

Not hardly my friend. This is the first time I've seen this article. Besides that, I like mixed photos and these are exceptional as they always seem to be. Even when flipping the channels I spend a little more time when I see something is in black and white.

It's like the old barns here in NC. Some are falling down and some soon to fall down. I like to take pictures when I do of this old pieces of history.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
Professor Guide
link   seeder  A. Macarthur    10 years ago

Walking the cows in salt water will help heal any injuries to their hoofs and legs. It's done with horses all the time.

Many thanks I should have thought of that myself so I'm glad you did and shared the info.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
Professor Guide
link   seeder  A. Macarthur    10 years ago

TTGA,

Since most of these restored images are one-of-a-kind I just want them to be seen and enjoyed as widely as possible. To my knowledge, once rendered on emulsions on glass, no other prints (as on paper) were produced. I can't say this with certainty, but the source of the 800-1000 Magic Lantern slides I now own, had no prints whatsoever.

Educated speculation.

The magic lantern used a concave mirror in back of a light source to direct as much of the light as possible through a small rectangular sheet of glassa "lantern slide"on which was the painted or photographic image to be projected, and onward into a lens at the front of the apparatus. The lens was adjusted to optimally focus the plane of the slide at the distance of the projection screen, which could be simply a white wall, and it therefore formed an enlarged image of the slide on the screen. [ 1 ]

 
 

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