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Chapel Hill (Colorized): 1939
Submitted by DonW on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 2:23pm.
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The same Granger Pipe Tobacco poster on the wall is for sale on a Chicago based web site - Granger Pipe Tobacco Advertising Piece with Johnny Mize, St. Louis Cardinals. Autographed. Circa 1940's. $2000. View full size.
Was this originally black and white?
Submitted by friedadventures on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 9:50pm.
What a wonderful image and colorization! What did it look like before you colorized it? Very envious of your talent shown here. I am at the beginning stages of efforts to colorize the digital images I have taken of glass plate negatives. Wonder if one can accomplish nearly the same quality of colorization with a digitized glass negative image as one could with a digitized positive print?
Great work!
[The monochrome version of Dorothea Lange's photo is here. - Dave]
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