musical

All you need - a fiddle and guitar. In NH, a small, 3-4 piece band which played for square dances might be called an orchestra.

I painted this girl: www.flickr.com/photos/christinestephens/4298770440/

I thought I would try to bring back some of the colour. This one is faded, and has shifted to purple, and I have a feeling that the film stock used was not great, or in some way unstable, but I've done what I can. As to film stock, for some reason, this data is not included in LOC's records for any of its colour images from this period, which is too bad, because it can be crucial to restoration efforts. www.flickr.com/photos/theonemacduff/5547531094/in/album-7...

Duffy'sTavern, most of the FSA/OWI slides are Kodachrome. They are stored off-site in cold storage so it's not easy to quickly check each one.

Jon (LOC P&P) Yup, I figured that was the case, based on work I've done on others, but it's nice to have confirmation. But this one was so badly faded, shifted so much towards purple, that my thought was that somehow the flash being used was not a good balance for Kodachrome, that the faux colour was baked into the slide from the moment the shutter was tripped. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about early flash bulbs or the 1930s chemistry of Kodachrome to figure it out. BTW, while the slides were scanned at 3600dpi, by the time you crop away the slide mount area, you're down to 3000-3100dpi, and personally, I would say that a 35mm slide shot through good glass – as these were – should be scanned at a minimum of 4800dpi. This is about enough so that you can begin to make out grain in the image. The larger file size also allows you greater freedom to sharpen, if you want to, and gives smoother colour transitions, and better shadow detail. Jest sayin'.

Excellent....

The Choralcelo (not Choracelo) was an electric keyboard musical instrument made by the Choralcelo Company, and apparently there was a studio or showroom "Choralcelo Galleries" in New York at 17 E. 40th Street. This photo may be of that studio. www.amica.org/Live/Publications/Past-Bulletin-Articles/Ch...

This may also be related to: "The New York Electrical Society held its 352d meeting on January 15th [1917] at the Choralcelo Galleries in New York Edward R Knowles lectured on "Dust Its Universality Its Conservatism and Its Elimination," giving some new and valuable data on the subject as well as indicating the part played by electricity in the most effective method of dust separation. After Mr Knowles' address, Guy P Norton spoke on the operative principles of the Choralcelo, the music of which is produced electrically, and a program of the music was rendered. Mr Norton explained how the various values were produced and modified and colored." Scientific American books.google.com/books?id=CbsxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA97&lp... More in the Electrical Review: " Afterwards Mr Norton explained how the various tone values were created modified and colored, his talk being accompanied by many striking illustrations. The Choralcelo principle is based upon the discovery of a method of controlling the frequency of magnetic impulses and of synchronizing their attack with the natural and fundamental vibrations of sonorous bodies." books.google.com/books?id=TUROAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106&l... Also, the business announced a series of demonstration recitals in February, 1917 in the Musical Courier. books.google.com/books?id=x-w6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA5&...

More on the instrument at symposium.music.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item... and part 1 of an article by Knowles on the same topic in the July 1917 issue of the magazine Steam books.google.com/books?id=YKzmAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA7&...

Good to know Knowles' "Dust, Its Universality, Its Conservatism and Its Elimination" has been preserved for history....

Art Siegel and swanq: Thanks for the detailed info on this image! We will improve the record with these details.