CSS Georgia Picture?

[noman]

See link at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-believed-known-photo-Civil-War-ironclad.html

 

[AndyHall]

That's interesting. The image has been reproduced many times, but I didn't realize the original was lost.

 

[rebelatsea]

That's interesting. The image has been reproduced many times, but I didn't realize the original was lost.

I wonder what modern computer imaging techniques could produce from that image? Obviously much better if it could be he original .

 

[noman]

Update on the alleged photo-see wikipedia article

Aparently there is a actual drawing of the CSS Georgia
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSS_Georgia_ironclad.jpg

 

[lelliott19]

April 15, 2015 Fox News
"The man who photographed the picture, John Potter, initially said he found it at a yard sale but couldn't afford to buy it. Now Potter tells The Associated Press the photo is a fake he made as a teenager using a 2-foot model of the ship and his brother in costume standing in a marsh."
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015...er-civil-war-mystery-is-30-year-old-hoax-did/

 

[AndyHall]

The "historic" photo and Potter's model: