Any really good place for old photo scanning/repair?

[avjudge]

Actually it's a photocopy of an old photo, so I don't want any further degradation in quality - and any ability to interpolate to make it less photocopy-y, and repair the images of the damage that obviously existed in the original picture (water stains, tears), would be a plus.

I got this copy of a photo of our street when it was first developed, 14 houses in 1874, from a neighbor when she was selling. She didn't seem to have an original, just these copies, and didn't leave one for the buyer as she promised. So this seems to be the only copy/version of this photo available.

I lent it to the historical society so they could have a copy, but if the extra copy she gave me back is anything to go by, they didn't do a very good job. I would like to have a high-quality digital copy for myself, and copies for those of the houses that are owner-occupied and whose owners are interested, so this picture doesn't disappear back into someone's garage. (That's where this one was originally hanging, I'm told.)

Any suggestions of particularly good photo wizards in or beyond Somerville?

(I did see the scanning thread from last year, but this seems more specialized than that.)

Anne

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[avjudge]

Cool - where'd you get the 1922 map? The Sanborn database I can log into with my library # only has 1900 and 1933 (and I've seen & photocopied the 1874 & 1884 maps in the library).

The street's actually the lower half of Glenwood Road, between Medford Street & the tracks/Vernon St. I didn't mention it because it's so far from Davis Sq, I thought some might object! It was originally Jenny Lind Avenue. Horace Partridge developed it and (the modestly-named) Partridge Avenue next to it.

Anne