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

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Russell Cashdollar
<cashdollarr at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps this merits wasting some of the time I don't actually have
because I (should be) working
on browsing and saving images. Thank you for sharing.


> 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.

Quite a nice image at that, and I'm glad that like the Pitt Archives
folks that they're scanning plates at that kind of resolution.

-- 
Derrick