I have been working with The Times’ historic photos for years and I know how the newspaper’s art department used to retouch pictures, so the moment I saw this image last week while doing the “Battle: Los Angeles” post I knew it had been heavily retouched.

My first question was whether we still had the original print.

We do, but it took a few days to get it. 

I’ll be writing more about the picture next week. 

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