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OriginalThe Thin Red Line, an illustration by Harold H. Piffard from the magazine Canada in Khaki showing a line of red poppies separating the war and peace. Published in 1917–1919, Canada in Khaki featured war art reproductions, cartoons, military histories and personal recollections as a tribute to Canadian soldiers fighting in World War I.
Alt 1: Restoration. I can't find another copy, so I've used my judgement based on previous work on things like these, for example, that the upper left blue patch was an inking error (it looked very odd when you zoomed in). About as good as this is going to get, methinks.
Reason
In a curious military coincidence, this precedes The Thin Red Line and both films based on it. Excellent resolution.
Articles in which this image appears
Canada in Khaki, Harold H. Piffard, Remembrance Day, Remembrance poppy
FP category for this image
Artwork/Others
Creator
Harold H. Piffard
@Crisco 1492: as well, Crisco 1402 is his ancestor. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:32, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Bammesk: From my experience with 1910s illustrations, the very pale text of the caption is evidence that the very light shades in the first upload is down to a bad, blurry scan. Dark blue is typical for a lot of illustrations in this period, a pale blue simply doesn't happen. I believe the original is simply a very bad scan (well, probably a bad photo) of the same exact source image. I'd say disregard it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:57, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:H. Piffard - The Thin Red Line - restoration.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:40, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]