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Originally Posted by GKreindler
The original 4" x 5" glass plate negative of this Ruth image resides in the collection of the Chicago History Museum. If I remember correctly, it's from 1917. You'll notice the same markings on the top of the image.
I can't speak towards the legitimacy of the slides as originals, but I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable labeling them as such.
Graig |
I agree with Greig,
Everything about this piece screams “fake” to me. The fact that it looks so amateurishly done, no period label, wrong date to inhance value, and to top it all off they left the photographers notations and writing from the negative on the finished piece. If you were making this to sell or for some other purpose they would have done a good job doing so and nobody would leave the random marks at the top of that photo, those would have been the first things cropped out of that photo.
Regardless of what it looks like under a microscope it doesn’t pass the initial eye test of something done during that period.