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In an unusual project, Randal Birkey was provided a faded copy of a historic illustration that was unusable for reproduction. He was asked to enhance it and turn it into a new and reproducible illustration. The image depicts a fire fighting team at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Randal scanned the reference work, then used a new software program called Fractal Painter running on an Apple Macintosh, and used a Wacom tablet to “retouch” and add color, texture and definition to the image.

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