Retouching:
Although
the company regularly sent its photographers out to reshoot
popular scenes, they also relied heavily on retouching
to update photographs or improve their composition.
If a composition needed improvement, it was cheaper to
apply a cut and paste approach than have a photographer
reshoot it.
This
photograph of the Dearborn Street Railroad Station in Chicago,
Illinois, from about 1910, has been retouched to add automobiles
along the front and block out an auto in the foreground.
