Date, clean-up and colour for this faded beauty please

[RedMystic]

Hello Chatters

Thanks in advance for your help putting a date to this photo and then adding a b&w clean-up and a coloured version. A refreshed image will be used to try to identify the two women.

This photo was one of several "rescued" from an album tossed on a beachside bonfire on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska in the early-1970s. I suspect the photo was 30-40 years old at that time, perhaps taken between 1930 & 1940 .... but I'm no expert.

The women are natives of Southeast Alaska, as is the man who pulled the photos from the fire. He would love a clean-up so that every effort can be made to try to identify the happy beauties. (The population on Prince of Wales and surrounding islands was pretty small at the time the photo was taken, so the options for this task aren't as daunting as they might be in a more populous area.)

Thanks again for your clean-up efforts. The expertise of the RootsChat photo restorers never ceases to amaze me.  

[japeflakes]

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[RedMystic]

Thank you Japeflakes. 

[PatBot]

A quick clean up

[RedMystic]

Thank you very much PatBot. The faces of the women are much clearer now. I'm sure that will be quite helpful as we seek to identify them.

[Trishanne]

Here's a colour version for you
Pat

[RedMystic]

That is adorable. Thank you Trishanne.