David Jackson Carringer in San Diego in 1900 -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #885

This is one of the priceless (to me) photographs in my computer file folders:

It is one of two sepia photographs of my 2nd great-grandparents David Jackson Carringer (the white bearded gentleman standing on the porch) and Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer standing on the porch to the right of David, in San Diego in about 1900 at their house at 30th and Ivy Streets.

I asked Google Gemini 2.5 Flash to sharpen, enhance and colorize the image, and got this result:

I magnified the image using a Photo tool to get this sepia image of David Jackson Carringer:

Then I added that magnified image to Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and requested it to sharpen, enhance and colorize the image.  Here is the result:

Finally, I used the sepia image of David Jackson Carringer in OpenAI ChatGPT5 and asked it to sharpen, enhance and colorize the image.  Here is the result:

I don't think either of the enhanced and colorized photos are great, but they are certainly better than the snipped image from the original photograph.  I don't know that David Jackson Carringer wore glasses, but he might have at age 72 in the top photo. The hats are different.  The coats are different. The beards are different.  

The sepia photograph I have is 11 mb in a TIF format because I scanned it 20 years ago, but the original image is relatively small (*about 5" by 7").  I wonder if Gemini and ChatGPT5 can sharpen, enhance and colorize that image?  There's only one way to find out!

This photograph is a part of my family history.  

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