Comments on: Amazing 70-Year-Old Color Photos

By: MissT

MissT — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:36:59 +0000

I’m callin your bluff! That #2 picture is TOTALLY Bob Newhart with dirt on his face.

By: Penny

Penny — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:26:08 +0000

Great pictures! I don’t see many prints in color, but my family has some very old color slides.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:41:34 +0000

These photos are wonderful! My favorite is the boilermaker. So much to see in that face. I just kept looking!

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 09 May 2010 10:12:32 +0000

Amazing! Not only were these photos beautiful, they captures so much from the past as well and made it seem much nearer to today’s generation. Looking forward for more of these!

By: David Hardwick

David Hardwick — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:02:52 +0000

Great work. Well done and thanks for posting

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:09:30 +0000

The Library's photostream now has close to 7,500 photos, including a set of color photochroms from 1890-1900 Europe. Here's another Library of Congress exhibit, on unique color photography from Russia in the early 1900's. The photographer Prokudin-Gorskii made his own three lens RGB camera and a projector to match so he could create a slideshow of color photos. The Library digitized the items to be able to combine and display/print them for the first time in decades. Some fantastic photos, like View the entire online exhibit at: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

By: Chrystani

Chrystani — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:46:05 +0000

That last pic…

Damn.
Men and women were hardcore back in the day.

Love it.

By: Bicycle Bill

Bicycle Bill — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05:14 +0000

I too am an amateur photographer, and seeing these pictures makes me wonder what images will be left of the last ten years or so.

Consider the fact that these pictures, posed or not, exist because
â€¢ someone took time to take them.
â€¢ they then produced a physical, durable image.
â€¢ someone else took then time to save them.

Even in today’s ‘hurry-up’, digitized world the monumental, significant events will certainly still be chronicled…..but I wonder how many shots of everyday life already have been taken, shared, and then deleted, and are now lost forever.

As the science of archaeology has already shown us, it is the ordinary events of everyday life and the detritus of daily living that are more likely to shed information on a culture than all the monuments ever raised and studied.

-”BB”-

reCaptcha – the exorcist

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:40:39 +0000

Great collection of old photos! Thank you very much for sharing this post. I make photo restoration and colorization, but even I didn't understand that these photos were initially black and white! Great work.

By: Jude from Flushing

Jude from Flushing — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:53:51 +0000

The ones identified as actual Kodachrome (of blessed memory) also look like they were taken with a Leica lens; just superb detail! Of course most of these are posed and lit, and probably some of these people are models. The pictures look like they may have been used for “Support the War Effort” campaigns. Only commercial photographers’ and government documentarians’ employers had the money to buy & develop color film. My fave is the Cincinnati boy. No one does depth of field like that any more!