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HF quad antenna in the background may be Amateur Radio Emergency Service or HF communications with Si=urface Effect Ship program vessels, (FCL or 'coast station').

I confess, I wasn't familiar with autochromes before browsing this collection. I love how they brings the past "to life," to use the cliche. We're not used to thinking of the early 1900s in color... Being in "costumes" rather than period clothes, these kids look like photos of my sisters and I in the 60s. I love it. Thanks.

Agree with elemsee. While we "know" the past wasn't b&w I know my mind tends to think of it that way. Seeing these early images "in color" reminds me that what my great-grandmother saw "in her day" was real life in all it's glorious color - not b&w monochrone.

I'm confused by the flag, which has staggered rows of stars, meaning it 's not a 48-star flag (after 1912) but a 46-star flag (1908-1912) or a 45-star flag (1896-1908). If this photo was taken in 1918, the kids were using a flag that was out of date and at least six years old, maybe as much as 12 years old.

48-star flags with staggered rows were very common in the early 20th century, even before New Mexico and Arizona were admitted to statehood. I have a few examples dated 1908-1910, and even one small silk example with a sticker on it saying it was used at the Columbus day celebration in 1892.

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the name and location
ZOLLER

here is a a Zoller beer brewery tradition too

www.zoller-hof.de/home.html

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Zoller means "hill"

I love those pictures! But the automatic scan process definitively doesn't do them justice... I got no photoshop skills whatsoever, but made a "quick fixed" version of this one anyway. Enjoy! ;)

i agree i learned photoshop using these pictures its a shame that they treated these pictures this way the auto scan takes from the black boarder and darkens the picture i cant belive some of the oohs and arrrs comments people have made over these slipshod scans

the clouds in the background are breathtaking. the composition of this is perfect.

I say cut the LOC a break. They are at least putting them up. With mass scannings, I do not expect the best.

Cashaw> I'm not blaming them for anything: every person having to go through a lot of color negatives scanning knows how time consuming it is, and they have a HUGE lot of negatives. That's why I took the liberty to try and do better: I wasn't thinking it could be considered as an attack or whatever...