OLD VINTAGE ANN ARBOR PHOTO ART PRINTS FOR SALE. THESE OLD ANN ARBOR MI PHOTO PRINTS FOR SALE ARE HIGH QUALITY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS MADE FROM ORIGINAL OLD VINTAGE HISTORICAL ANN ARBOR AND YPSILANTI FIRST GENERATION PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS AND/OR ORIGINAL NEGATIVES. THESE SEPIA TONED OLD VINTAGE ANN ARBOR AND YPSILANTI BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO PICTURE PRINTS FOR SALE ARE OFFERED HERE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. THE RARE OLD ORIGINAL PHOTOS AND BLACK AND WHITE NEGATIVES USED FOR THESE PRINTS HAVE BEEN OBTAINED FROM HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, NATIONAL ARCHIVES, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND NUMEROUS PRIVATE COLLECTIONS. IT HAS TAKEN SEVERAL YEARS TO PUT THESE OFFERINGS TOGETHER. AS WELL AS THIS VINTAGE OLD ANN ARBOR MI PHOTO SERIES, I ALSO OFFER AN EVEN LARGER OLD HISTORICAL DETROIT PHOTO SERIES WHICH CAN BE SEEN ON MY WEBSITE AT WWW.OldDetroitPhotos.com MANY OF THESE PHOTOS ORIGINALLY CAME FROM OLD DEFUNCT NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARCHIVES, WHERE THEY WERE USED ONCE FOR A STORY. THEN USUALLY JUST THIS ONE OR TWO REFERENCE ORIGINAL PRINTS WERE MADE AND KEPT FOR THEIR ARCHIVES. HENCE, THESE HISTORICAL IMAGES WERE NOT ORIGINALLY MADE TO BE FOR SALE, BUT WERE TO BE USED AS IMAGES FOR NEWS STORIES AS THEY UNFOLDED--MAKING THESE IMAGES EXTREMELY RARE HAVING SURVIVED SO MANY YEARS. MANY OF THE REPRODUCED HISTORICAL OLD VINTAGE ANN ARBOR PHOTOS PRINTS FOR SALE SHOWN HERE ARE OVER 100 YEARS OLD. VERY FEW OF THESE IMAGES HAVE EVER BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL NOW. THE ORIGINAL OLD ANN ARBOR BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE BEEN DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED AND MAJOR FLAWS, SUCH AS TEARS, SCRACTCHES, MISSING PIECES, FOLDS, INK STAINS ETC. ON THESE RARE PHOTOS HAVE BEEN PAINSTAKINGLY REMOVED AND CORRECTED AND HIGH QUALITY PRINTS OF THESE HISTORIC RARE DETROIT AND ANN ARBOR BLACK AND WHITE SEPIA TONED PHOTOS PRINTS FOR SALE ARE NOW OFFERED, FOR THE FIRST TIME, ON THIS WEBSITE. THESE PHOTOS HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL RESTORED AND ARTISTICALLY SEPIA TONED AND ARE OFFERD IN A LIMITED EDITION OF INDIVIDUALLY PRINTED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS. THEY ARE READY FOR DISPLAY IN YOUR HOME OR OFFICE. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO OWN AND ENJOY SOME VERY SPECIAL AND UNIQUE DETROIT AND ANN ARBOR HISTORY. *PLEASE NOTE: The quality of the photo that you order will be much higher than this low resolution digital image. Blurring around the edges of high contrast areas are a result of the low resoultion jpeg compression process. And of course the Watermark and contact info shown on the web image will NOT be on the photo that you order. |