Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mulberry Street, New York City

 
Original
 
edit 1 1px median filter, and downsample
Reason
Delightful street scene, even if it is colorized.
Proposed caption
Mulberry Street in Manhattan, New York City, photographed in 1900.
Articles this image appears in
Little Italy, Manhattan, History of New York City, New York City, Mulberry Street (Manhattan)
Creator
Detroit Photograph Co. (per 1900 copyright notice)
How about: "Mulberry Street, depicted here in a photochrom from the year 1900, is the principal street of the Little Italy neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City." Spikebrennan 16:40, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Perfect. NauticaShades 12:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question So when was the colorisation done? Was it contemporary with the photo or has it been done more recently? Spebudmak 17:18, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment If I understand the references of the Library of Congress it seems it was published in color around 1900. As it is a colorized photograph the color was added after the shooting and before the publishing. It may have taken some time because hand painting picture was probably a slow work. This makes a bit difficult to know when the photo was shot. Photocrom was invented in 1890 but the publisher could have used a 20 years old photography. It seems to me that it is gelatin-silver process (the standard Black and White process today) and shot with a good lens so think it was shot circa 1900, but that only opinion. Ericd 21:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support the downsampled version. And well, I think that the downsampled version is still to large it was originally shot for a postcard a size that doesn't need more than 1 Mpixel to get a nice print. What we have is probably a scan ofa photo of postcard sized-print. It doesn't make justice to the picture to oversize it. Ericd 21:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per above. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Physicistjedi (talkcontribs) 22:55, August 28, 2007 (UTC)
  • Support indeed prefect scene, without a doubt should be FA. M.K. 22:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Mulberry Street NYC c1900 LOC 3g04637u edit.jpg MER-C 09:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]