[PRCo] Example of detail in Detroit Publishing Co 8x10 Glass Plate Neg. at The Library Of Congress

[Russell Cashdollar]

To repeat as an explanation... 
Library of Congress has a lot of huge downloadable images 
from one of the largest producers of American postcard, 
The Detroit Publishing Company. There are a lot of good 
images to be explored. If you have Detroit Pub. Co. postcards 
that show tiny little streetcars, you can get detailed close-ups 
of those very same cars from huge high res files made from 
the original 8x10 glass plate negs. 

As example I have attached three images.

The first is an image of a common Detroit Publishing Co. 
postcard of the Monongahela Incline.

There appears to be some kind of streetcar in the background 
behind the fence and women with the suitcases.

The second image is a close up of that section of the high res 
scan of the original 8x10 glass plate neg. It reveals in detail 
what that street car is... as well a hefty pile of horse manure.

An alternate image (not used for a postcard) taken at the same time 
from a slightly different position gives an unobstructed 
view of that same car without the ladies, the fence, or the horse poop.

Russ 



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