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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is a collection of historical photos. Some very old, some not; all are worth seeing...
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http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=d6d9d5385aeelogosoco
(3,208 posts)I love seeing historical pictures colorized. Makes them so much more true to life.
I say this as someone who did not have a color TV until I was about 10 in 1973!
On the same hand, I like looking at modern day photos in black and white.
Loved the music, too!
thanks for sharing this!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)I thought these were exceptionally well colorized, since I normally don't like that technique.
Thanks for stopping by!
Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)That was a fantastic chronology, well worth the few minutes. Atlanta 1864, mother & children in Tennessee, and Hiroshima stand out in particular, but a fascinating collection all the way.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)A friend of my husband's sent it and I felt that DU would find it interesting.
Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)Butch Cassidy bore a remarkable resemblance to Kurt Russell IMO.
mcar
(42,210 posts)I love these kinds of links. Thank you Peggy.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)the time my parents were born. I noticed how old the faces of those poor children were and that 15-year old German youth crying. Powerful stuff and the music and color just added so much to it. Beautiful..
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Colorizing these photos -- or any very old photos -- really brings them alive, puts us much closer to the people in them.
Imagine if we had actual photos of even earlier people and events.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Thanks for this find, my dear California Peggy!
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Thank you so much for posting this link.
Gin
(7,212 posts)Thanks for posting!
rurallib
(62,346 posts)Thanks so much for sharing
ReRe
(10,597 posts)One of the wonderful things about the internet is being able to share marvelous information, such as this uncanny video into the past. I love history (local, national, world,) and the people who lived through it all to bring us to our present day.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)so interesting but.... BLAH!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)I understand how you feel; normally I loathe colorized pictures.
But these were done really well, I think, with an eye to being accurate.
Sorry!
Packerowner740
(676 posts)Laf.La.Dem.
(2,936 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)so I can look later. At work now.
Lonusca
(202 posts)I will be sharing this. Excellent montage
ybbor
(1,552 posts)Thanks for sharing!
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)Some were seen colorized by me for the first time. I admit I have little appreciation for b&w photography.
Seeing these really took me to that place in time, for better or worse.
Thanx for posting.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)To me it's the historical message that is presented.
Every time a PukeBagger rants something "Nazi"...remember these images...especially that stare-down photo.
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)excellent coloring too
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)There was no color photography back then. Sometimes prints were hand-tinted.
To me, to add color is to violate the photographer's intent. He had no hand in it. Most of these are very famous photos.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)I think it was done very carefully. The colorization is not garish.
How can you violate the photographer's intent when there was no color photography? Maybe they would have preferred color. I know that Ansel Adams took some of his pictures in color, and really enjoyed doing it. But it was expensive in his day.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)It was a completely different movie. For some reason, many of the colors came out as pastels. Whatever color Sam Spade's world was, it was not pastel.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)That was awesome.
happyslug
(14,779 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)happyslug
(14,779 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 6, 2014, 10:26 PM - Edit history (2)
Please note this photos are owned by the US Government Library of Congress, so no copyright exists so anyone can use them:
Complete list of photos:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/geocat.php?lang=en&is_old=0
US Library of Congress collection of these photos:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html
Here are some of the photos in the collection:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=482&type=3
Here is a photo that does NOT have a modern duplicate of the Church BUT the Church Still stands:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/card.php?lang=en&photos_id=537
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novospassky_Monastery
One of his photos and a 2012 version of his photo:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=825&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=824&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=899&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=488&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=487&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1200&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=407&type=3
He even made it to Switzerland:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=90&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=539&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=540&type=3
Now to the Crimea:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1755&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1756&type=3
Kiev:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=542&type=3
Denmark:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=194&type=3
Chapel where Ivan the Terrible's wife gave birth:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=523&type=3
How much things change:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=522&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1094&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=7&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=512&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1096&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1103&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1438&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1390&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=861&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=709&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=526&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=310&type=3
The border between Europe and Asia:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1825&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1425&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=967&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=1018&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=250&type=3
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=201&type=3
Some Russian Villages, no modern photo to compare them to:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/card.php?lang=en&photos_id=1731
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/card.php?lang=en&photos_id=1734
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/card.php?lang=en&photos_id=1354
For more photos of Villages:
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/tags.php?lang=en&tag_id=2
http://prokudin-gorsky.org/arcs.php?lang=en&photos_id=599&type=3
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Thanks for posting.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)I'm always curious how the sights from the past compare with how they are today. These are wonderful.
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)I found it how depressing how much the past photos look a lot better.
Gee, it's almost like looking at America in the past vs America now.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)I usually don't like colorized historical photos but they do sort of bring to life.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)you're exactly right. It made them more lifelike.
And after all, those people lived in color too lol.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)thanks. I always look at old photos especially of the civil war cause my grand dad fought as a union soldier even though he was from Georgia. I guess hoping I see a picture captioned Jefferson Maner as we don't have any pictures of him from that time. later photos yes but not when he was in the union army. We do have his discharge papers though. they were passed down to our Dad because he was the youngest member of the family.
malaise
(267,827 posts)Thanks
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)A doffer is someone who clears full bobbins, pins or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones.
This was a job for young boys in the cotton mills, because they had speed, strength wasn't an essential.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)I thought perhaps it was a family name.
Thanks for looking it up!
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)A sure way to brown lung disease.
A big killer back in the day for the cotton mill workers.
Thanks for looking that up!
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Thank you
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I'm a history fanatic.
Thank you Peg.
niyad
(112,435 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,546 posts)Music played but screen was black, crashed browser (had to force close) but music kept playing. Couldn't clear broswer data, finally pulled the battery out of my phone to make it stop.
Some web sites create fancy displays that just don't work on mobile devices, seems like they must not even test for mobile compatability.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)Thanks! bookmarked
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)sheshe2
(83,355 posts)Those are awesome Peggy!
Thank you!
Rhiannon12866
(203,037 posts)Definitely worth seeing! Thanks so much for posting!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I love these old pics
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)They are truly amazing, aren't they? I love them too.
Kablooie
(18,572 posts)Check out some more of her work:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/sannadullaway/portfolio/popular
http://mygrapefruit.deviantart.com/gallery/
FourScore
(9,704 posts)this is wonderful!
liberalmuse
(18,670 posts)I felt very emotional looking at these. These were some of the best colorizations I've seen. Odd how colorization makes the humanity of even some of the most disturbing figures (Hitler) and scenes (wounded soldier, 15-year old German youth, etc.) really hit home. Thank you for sharing!
NBachers
(17,007 posts)burrowowl
(17,607 posts)Cooooool!
h2ebits
(632 posts)Some of these look so real that you expect the people to start moving at any moment.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)spanone
(135,636 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)with each photo... it's like projecting into the past.
Thanks you Peggy.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)you nailed it: all are worth seeing.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)The Sundance Kid (Harry Longbough) is the man seated on the left.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Very curious.
TIA
allan01
(1,950 posts)nice collection. the page too flash heavy for my oold computer . liked the one of tesla ( the inventer) by sarony. thanks
Ninga
(8,266 posts)OldEurope
(1,273 posts)at the Feldherrenhalle. In November 1923 Hitler had tried to take over the country in 1923 starting with a riot in Munich at that place. This putsch failed, some Nazis were killed, and Hitler was convicted to prison. When he finally won the Nazis had a commemoration there at every 9th of November (I think the combination of 9 and 11 are the real numbers of misfortune, who cares about 13?).
They had also a guard of honour there 24/7 and every citizen who was walking by had to do the Hitlergruß - all the way long. So everybody avoided the place and went through a tiny alleyway behind the Feldherrenhalle. They called it Drückebergergässchen, which means skulker street.
The Feldherrenhalle was built in 1844 imitating the Loggia Dei Lanzi in Florence, Italy.
from Munich!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)Skulker street. I love it!
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)pinto
(106,886 posts)Thanks for the post.
northoftheborder
(7,566 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)but the music did me in... Lovely...but so sad.