Photo Restorations

Cleaning Up The Past

I recently gained access to a number of old family pictures I had never seen before. The first picture below is my daughter's great great grandfather, John Jacob Katenbaugh/Kettenbach, born in 1862. The picture is so old it was on metal instead of paper! It took hours to clean this image, but the result was worth the effort.

Another of my daughter's great great grandfathers is Charles Christian Harms, born in 1858. He is shown seated below. I was able to remove some stains and torn blemishes.

More torn defects were removed from the following picture of my daughter's great grandmother, Margaret Catherine Harms Gaydell, the daughter of Charles Harms. Margaret was born in 1896, so the picture below is from approximately 1898.

Finally, stains, blemishes, and grime were removed from this amazing picture of both my wife's maternal great grandparents holding my wife's infant mother in approximately 1922.

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