James L Blilie Photos from 1951, Stationed at Frankfurtam Main, Germany

Photos taken by James Louis Blilie,

1951 Stationed at Frankfurt am Main, Germany

These are all scans of slides, prints, and negatives. Some of the originals are quite damaged. Most of

the scans required some restoration in Photoshop. I'm not sure what materials he was using. When

he used Kodachrome, the colors are still well preserved. On other materials, the color has nearly

faded out completely. Here are a couple of examples (click on the thumbnails):

Un-restored

This is typical of the slide films that are not Kodachrome.

Restored by color restoration and various other techniques to bring something of the original image back

Un-restored

Restored by color restoration and various other techniques to bring something of the original image back

In addition, many of the slides from the 1940s and early 1950s were severely damaged by humidity

when he stored them in Florida in the late 1950s. You can clearly see large discolored blotches and

fungal growth on them. These are just too much work to correct. I present them more or less as

scanned, for record purposes.


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