Photos Question - Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, etc.

[jjbond]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

I still think it's a type 1.

If a local news service requested this photo why would the international news service not use the original negative? You can make an enlargement in no time.

....but the new image (top) *is* clearer and sharper (and slightly more picture around the edges). I sort of feel the top one is the one owned by the International News Service (w/ the rubber stamp), and the bottom one was duplicated and labeled in pencil as to who had the copyright?

And then if this is the criteria - fully sharp/clear, then a lot of photos I'm looking at on ebay (even labeled T1), seem to be another generation of quality removed.

In this era (mid 1910s), did you have an original negative, which you then duplicated (losing some quality) and mailed off to various newspapers around the country? (which would explain why it took a few days from the event to when the pictures hit the paper). So the difference in T1/T3 would be the photographer's original that he took with his camera vs. the newspaper's original that was used in the paper?