Colorized or in black and white, Arnold Genthe’s 1914 photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay with a magnolia tree is well known. Less well known, however, is that the original image itself is in color: an Autochrome transparency. An obvious reason is that it’s too dark.

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018704460/

But see her now in the light.

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