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America in the 1910’s, in colour.

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Ho Chi Minh Trail now . .
http://www.laosgpsmap.com/ho-chi-minh-trail-laos/

Americana in the early 1900’s, wonderfully displayed and delightfully informative. I had no idea such variations in photographic technology were available then. A scenic testament to the acceleration of life… Thanks very much.

Thanks for posting, Kate. These photos are so captivating because they let us glimpse that world of a century ago the same way those in the photos saw it. The photos come to life in a way that black and white stills never can.

Quite the contrast in one evening, Kate.
You’ve covered 100 years and shown the ordered and family oriented life of (North) America in the 1910s and deterioration of our world in the 2010s where you can pay to get it on with the animal of your choice with the blessing of the state.
My, how far we’ve come.

The bright colours always surprise me because we’re so used to seeing their clothes in only b&w or, worse, sepia. Thank goodness for the chemical dye revolution.

Great pictures of a time long past. There is also another archive of great colour pictures from the early 1900’s that look like they could have come from someones 10MP digital camera. They are the Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii collection, a Russian photographer who under commission from Czar Nicholas undertook a picture survey of Russia. A snippet of these is here…http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/
and the whole collection can be viewed here….
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/
Take the time to view these masterful pictures of an era long forgotten.

These are great pictures, as are those in the link northernont provided.
I have a few postcards from Russia from the early 1900s, that are coloured like this,in may family heritage collection and they are beautiful to look at.

Now thats spooky. All ghosts now.

I love old photographs. Well old, new, doesn’t matter. I love photos. I have an old black and white photo that was hand painted (another form of colour technology from the past) that my parents were given for a wedding present in 1949. I had it restored and reframed and the technician marvelled at the skill of the painter as well as the photographer. It hangs proudly on our living room wall.