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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.

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In this retouched version of the same photograph, the pedestrians cross the street with no streetcar wires above.  The retouching paint in this unfinished version is easy to see.

View comparison of this and the original.
Image of Commercial National Bank in Detroit, retouched
Accession ID # P.DPC.071686.A

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