For the past several years a kind friend has hosted us at her rustic vacation cabin on the American River in California's Sierra foothills. She purchased the place twenty years ago from an ailing SF labor lawyer, who never retrieved the books, games, furniture and sundry other impedimenta. For some time I've been charmed by this poster, carelessly thumbtacked to the wall of the only actual bedroom.


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Last year I received the reluctant permission of the owner to borrow the poster, which likely dates from about 1963-65, in order to scan and reprint it. The attempt to scan it in increments on my cheap little flatbed came a cropper in the event, and the recent request for the return of the original moved me to take the poster to a service bureau in San Francisco, where the thing was carefully placed on a drum scanner and the resultant image saved to CD-ROM. The artwork is dreadfully weathered—torn, stained, wrinkled—but I've been working on it in units of four square inches at a session, and by the time Photoshop and I are finished with it later this month, and once the file has gone back to the service bureau, I should have a version suitable, as they say, for framing.

cordially,

Certainly. It's a largish image (a little under 14" x 22") scanned at 400 dpi, so email delivery wouldn't be realistic, and even FTP might cause Apple to balk (although they've recently increased the stingy dotmac bandwidth restrictions). Of course, there's always the tried and true: CD-ROM and transatlantic post, mature technologies both of 'em.

cordially,