I commented on the photo, not your memories. That's a really narrow construction of what you said. I said "I remember brown skies just like this" and you sugge

I commented on the photo, not your memories. That's a really narrow construction of what you said. I said "I remember brown skies just like this" and you suggested that 1) The color is fake 2) I might imagine that scene with blue skies 3) the Atlantic has an axe to grind and 4) other cities have "the real thing." What am I supposed to think? The photos were part of an EPA project specifically conceived to "document subjects of environmental concern." There was editorial intent, certainly, but nobody at The Atlantic had anything to do with it. This is all explained on The Atlantic's page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCUMERICA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCUMERICA http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/documerica-images-of-america-in-crisis-in-the-1970s/100190/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/documerica-images... http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/collections/72157620729903309/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/collections/... I'm trying to find out if the photo is in color or not. Certainly most of the DOCUMERICA project was in color, certainly every other photo chosen for this Atlantic feature was color, and certainly the photographer seems to have worked almost entirely with color at the time: http://research.archives.gov/search?expression=Aleksandrowicz&pg_src=brief&data-source=archival-descriptions-with-digital-objects http://research.archives.gov/search?expression=Aleksandrowic... It would not surprise me, at this point, to learn that the photo was in color. I don't think there is anything artificial-looking about it, it matches my memories pretty well. Yes, it has a nearly monochromatic look to it, but some scenes are really like that. Unfortunately the National Archives record doesn't seem to indicate whether the photo was in color or not: http://research.archives.gov/description/550175 http://research.archives.gov/description/550175 Do you have any information about scans of sepia photos? How many unique colors might be expected? I have tried doing a color count on several old photos that I'm confident started as real sepia-tint, and found color counts in the 6K-13K range, significantly fewer than the 26K that appear in the Clark Avenue Bridge photo. But I don't think that's conclusive.