Restoring an Impossible 100 year old Photo
It began with my first glimpse of the image. It was a wreck. Not only was it faded beyond recognition in many places, there were large pieces of the face missing. The edges were seriously frayed. Numerous stains obscured the artwork surrounding the portrait. But underneath the accumulated damage I could see the image of a young soldier who had served our country in some long-ago war. “Can you restore this?”, she asked. I looked at the back of the image and saw that it had b