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Brooklyn Daily Eagle[edit]

Original - The Brooklyn Eagle offices as seen from the street, 1916.
Reason
The Brooklyn Eagle was was a daily newspaper for over 100 years. To be candid, this restoration has been performed in hopes of promoting relations between the Brooklyn Public Library (which owns the defunct Eagle's archives) and the New York Wikimedia chapter. If a partnership develops between the library and WMF it would be a boon for Wikisource and possibly also for Commons. Restored version of File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle.jpg. Very high resolution; compressed courtesy copy also available for viewers with slow connections at File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle2 courtesy copy.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Brooklyn Eagle
Creator
Harris & Ewing
  • Support as nominator --Durova311 18:19, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Good quality and high encyclopedic value. Lazulilasher (talk) 22:30, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Big, irreplaceable EV. Very high quality. Staxringold talkcontribs 04:03, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Sorry, but I can't see the EV here - wouldn't a front page from the newspaper covering a major event be a better lead image? There's also the awkward crop which cuts off the top of the building and the car obscuring the optician's(?) below - not to mention the cut-off car at the right. Time3000 (talk) 11:07, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support A street view of the offices provides plenty of good EV, though I wouldn't mind having a front page shot for the lead and moving this down to the Brooklyn Eagle#Demise of the original Eagle section. The restoration is of high quality. And a help in building a relationship with the Brooklyn Public Library is simply icing on the cake. NW (Talk) 19:05, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - great EV and I love the hat cleaning sign, shows how times have changed a bit --Childzy ¤ Talk 23:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Firefox 3.0.x says full scale image can't be displayed because it "contains errors". I'm also concerned that the noise here looks digital rather than like photographic grain. (Opera was able to display the image.) I was unable to determine at what stage this noise was introduced, since the image description says "See also File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle1.tif (partial restoration) and File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle2.tif (full restoration, uncompressed)." but these files don't exist on Commons. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 00:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • You're the first person to report a problem with opening the file in Firefox (which is my primary browser; been having no problems). LoC scanned the original at 16 bit; had to convert to 8 bit to save as a JPEG. After several tries at uploading the TIFFs, it appears that Brion Vibber didn't permit 16 bit format when he enabled TIFFS a few months ago. Been fighting a bad cold all week, which is setting back a lot of work (such as followup on that). Anyway, this isn't digital noise. When a 5"x7" negative gets scanned at 150MB, that extremely high resolution does reveal photographic grain.Durova312 01:26, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - GerardM (talk) 19:04, 9 September 2009 (UTC) it works for me using Ubuntu's firefox 3.0 ... Great restoration with fine annotations on the process[reply]

Promoted File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle2.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:24, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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