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Original - A photo from 1917 of the first highway centerline, handpainted on Dead Man's Curve in rural Marquette County Michigan, Michigan
Edit 2 More conservative contrast adjustment.
Printed copy from the MDOT book published in 1980.
Printed copy, edit 1 my attempt to convert back to black and white, adjusting contrast and levels a bit
Reason
To be honest, on technical merits, this photo doesn't meet all of the criteria. However, it is the only known photograph from 1917 to show the original highway centerline from a rural part of the state of Michigan. Because of its age, this photo can not be retaken. According to the Graphics Lab at the Michigan Department of Transportation, no higher resolution copy can be obtained.
Articles in which this image appears
Road surface marking, Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1991), M-15 (Michigan highway)
FP category for this image
Engineering and technology
Creator
Unknown, original photo courtesy of the Michigan Department of Transportation, image adjustments and conversion to PNG by Imzadi1979 (talk · contribs)
  • As far as road and highway history goes, this is both a very significant event, and an impressive photo in the sense that it has been preserved as an example of the first. This sort of thing is normally forgotten, it's rare to find it preserved in history so vividly. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 18:29, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I ment the way it's used does not give it enough EV to overlook our minimum size requirements. If it had it's own article that was substantive and well sourced and good reason presented why getting a better scan would be impossible, then I'd reconsider. But it being just used in a general article about road markings and a list article, isn't enough by my book. — raekyt 20:59, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Commons has a tutorial about removing regular noise, which applies to printed images like the one listed here. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:26, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment/Query: Well, it seems my... comments... to MDOT have them seeing the error of their ways. Yesterday I convinced them to rescan the photo from their archives. They sent me back a 300dpi TIFF that I have converted as a PNG. It's now up to 2.52 MP of resolution. I was trying to shame them with the fact that my inexpensive home scanner could do the 600dpi images scanned above from the book. Now, do I keep badgering them gently to see if they will listen to me when I say: "send me the highest resolution, largest file you can, even if if means I have to pick it up on CD in person because it's too big to e-mail" or do not provoke them into saying, "you got what you're going to get". In any case, the new file is at File:M-15 centerline 1917-2.png. Maybe we should close this whole nomination for now? Imzadi 1979  15:27, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Jujutacular talk 19:23, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]