(erielack) CWI in Chicago

[Dale Madison <gobills_@_ncweb.com>]

At 05:32 30-03-2005, you wrote:
>Bill,
>
>The list only accepts jpg image attachments, not tiff.
>
>I used the unprocessed backup copy of the message to extract the tiff images
>and converted them to jpegs.
>
>After looking at them I was somewhat puzzled as they are at the extreme range
>of contrast, almost like a black & white image produced from an engraving.
>ImageMagick shows them as being only a 1 bitplane image, black & white colors
>only, which explains it! After blowing them into Paint Shop Pro as jpegs I
>processed them to sort of enhance the images into a psuedo gray scale, but I
>am afraid they aren't like the original photographs. I also reduced them to
>1200 pixels wide so most people can view them on their monitors.
>
>Here they are, for what it is worth.
>
>Henry


Thanks Henry for taking that task on.  The pix also show how close the IC 
electric lines were.  You can see one at the far left of the 1st pic, and 
way in the back of the 2nd pic.  That dates the pix to the mid-1920's as 
the IC electrification wasn't completed until the early 1920's IIRC.

Dale

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