Humble Oil 1905 Photographs

Humble started off small, long before oil turned it into a boomtown. Joseph Dunman was thought to be the first to settle here in 1828, and he was soon followed by folks like Pleasant Smith Humble—“Plez”—who arrived just before the Civil War. Plez built a ferry crossing along the San Jacinto River, served as justice of the peace, and eventually opened a post office in his home in 1886, cementing the Humble name for good....

March 13, 2025 · 2 min · 264 words · P.W.

Süleymanname - Book of Suleiman

Süleymanname is an illustrated manuscript chronicling the life and achievements of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Unfortunately, while copies exist and there are photographs of the illustrations, they are poor in both resolution and lighting. In this post, we’ll look at the first 10 images from Süleymanname detailed with AI. Take a look here to see all the original images with more descriptions about the scenes. Click here for the Wikipedia article about the book....

February 5, 2025 · 4 min · 752 words · P.W.

London Street View 1840

London Street Views There was recently a post on Hacker News that linked to a Map Collection showing a bunch of scans from a surveying book for London from the 1840s. I ran these through my ‘Enhance!’ ComfyUI workflow to imagine what these might look like in color. This is still using SDXL but I’m keen to try to update it to Flux when I have a chance. That should improve the text fidelity quite a bit I believe....

February 4, 2025 · 1 min · 102 words · P.W.