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Posted: 3/16/2015 12:34:06 PM EDT
Times Square, D-Day, 1944
Boxing match aboard the U.S.S. New York, July 3, 1899 
Boy watching TV for the first time in an appliance store window, 1948 
Morning after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Corner of Sutter and Kearny Street, San Francisco, December 8, 1941 
Holiday goers in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905 
Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 1907 
Girls deliver ice, September 16, 1918 
Dick Winters and his Easy Company lounging at Eagle's Nest, Hitler's (former) residence. 
Two U.S. soldiers of C Company, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division seek shelter behind a M-4 Sherman tank at Geich, near Düren, Germany, on 11 December 1944 
Back when there was no air conditioning... Licking blocks of ice during heat wave in NYC, 1912 
Eureka Colorado, late 1800s 
The Jersey Shore, 1905 
Harley Davidson motorbike dealership + gang in Washington D.C., 1925 
Captain Walter "Waddy" Young and his crew pose in front of their caricatures on their B-29 Superfortress , November 24, 1944 
Harry Houdini steps into a crate at New York Harbor as part of an escape stunt, July 7, 1912 
Hot dog stand in North End, Boston, 1937 
Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Hotel Velvet, 1904 
2nd Armored Division soldiers sing "Go to town" in Barento, France, 1944 
View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil War in 1864 
Morning walk on Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, 1905 
Man the guns, Join the Navy! U.S. Navy Recruiter Cotton Price With Recruiting Poster in Ann Arbor, May 1942 
W.H. Murphy and his associate demonstrating their bulletproof vest on the 13th of October, 1923 
A breeches buoy is put into service to transfer survivors of a sunken ship from a U.S. destroyer to a cruiser, November 14, 1942 
Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921 
Cab stand in Madison Square Park, New York, 1900 
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Posted: 3/16/2015 12:44:09 PM EDT
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I like how back then things light streetlamps and stoplights had some type of decorative motif incorporated into the design whereas those things today are completely utilitarian and basic
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Posted: 3/16/2015 12:46:57 PM EDT
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cool pictures
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Posted: 3/16/2015 12:50:08 PM EDT
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Pretty awesome.
How do they know what colors to put in?  |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 12:51:12 PM EDT
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tag
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Posted: 3/16/2015 12:54:10 PM EDT
[#5]
badass pics!
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Posted: 3/16/2015 12:54:44 PM EDT
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very nice.
thanks for sharing |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 12:56:34 PM EDT
[#7]
Very cool, thanks for sharing
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Posted: 3/16/2015 12:58:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pretty awesome. How do they know what colors to put in? |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:01:03 PM EDT
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Cool thanks for posting!
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:02:20 PM EDT
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Great post.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:05:12 PM EDT
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Thanks for sharing!
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:06:07 PM EDT
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Thank you for sharing those images.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:06:47 PM EDT
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That B-29 was lost with all hands 1-09-45. RIP.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:09:13 PM EDT
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Sort of want the ice girls.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:09:40 PM EDT
[#15]
Southern Ice has been a problem since 1921 it appears.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:13:01 PM EDT
[#16]
Really cool. I always wonder how accurate the color is in these....is there a way to tell what the original colors are from a black and white photo?
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:14:11 PM EDT
[#17]
Nice. Love threads like this.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:14:52 PM EDT
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Notice how the streets are not full of trash.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:17:03 PM EDT
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Really cool. I always wonder how accurate the color is in these....is there a way to tell what the original colors are from a black and white photo? Not really sure how they do them but I'm assuming they can take color/shade info from the grays and apply them to other colors. Like the sky, take that "level" of gray and apply it to a blue shade. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:17:06 PM EDT
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1907 Recent  |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:17:28 PM EDT
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Brian Williams will be along shortly to describe where he was in each of the pictures.
TC |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:17:45 PM EDT
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Fuckin A man!
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:25:58 PM EDT
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If taxpayer's money went into paying the salary of this person to continue colorizing old photos like this, I would not mind in the least.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:31:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Not really sure how they do them but I'm assuming they can take color/shade info from the grays and apply them to other colors. Like the sky, take that "level" of gray and apply it to a blue shade. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Really cool. I always wonder how accurate the color is in these....is there a way to tell what the original colors are from a black and white photo? Not really sure how they do them but I'm assuming they can take color/shade info from the grays and apply them to other colors. Like the sky, take that "level" of gray and apply it to a blue shade. Yeah, they found that out when the Viking lander first landed on Mars- the first photos of the Martian surface initially showed the skies on Mars were blue. It was later determined the artist colorizing the photos had unconsciously used Earth's blue sky as a reference. When they analyzed the different shades of gray from the original black and while pics they discovered the Sky of Mars was really a rusty red color. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:34:11 PM EDT
[#25]
Interesting.
Surprised such a sunny day SF Dec 8 middle of winter Wooden deck on the Navy ship is 
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:45:16 PM EDT
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They all look so short. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:49:35 PM EDT
[#27]
Incredible how much better it is in digital media.
We used to do this by hand with dyes! |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:50:05 PM EDT
[#28]
Not a single land whale.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:53:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Nice. Love threads like this. Me too Thanks Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:58:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
They all look so short. Quote HistoryThey were |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 1:59:31 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Really cool. I always wonder how accurate the color is in these....is there a way to tell what the original colors are from a black and white photo? Not sure, but I think it is along the lines of if you know what one color is then you can use that to find the others. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:00:27 PM EDT
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I'll play
Washington DC 1935 
I dig that blue car ------------------------------------- France 1944 maybe? 
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:04:47 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Incredible how much better it is in digital media. We used to do this by hand with dyes! I thought that was kodachrome |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:11:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:17:11 PM EDT
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A few more:
Fall River, Massachusetts, Main Street, 1920 
Lyudmila Pavlichenko who, by the end of World War II, was creditied with 309 kills, making her the most successful female sniper in history 
Three men of the 7th Armored Division, known as the "Lucky Seventh", man a 3-inch Gun M5 (anti-tank gun) covering the approach on a road to Belgium, December 23, 1944. Near Vielsalm, Belgium 
Post officers model their new Autopeds scooters, Washington DC, 1917 
Evening stroll along the boardwalk & beach of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905 
Kid climbs into US Air Force jet engine, 1947 
The back of a Baltimore grocery store, July 1938 
Guests of Sarasota trailer park picnicking at the beach. Sarasota, Florida. January 1941 
Armed troops block off a road near an explosion at an oil factory near Texas City, Texas. April 17, 1947 
Coney Island, New York, Luna Park, Promenade, 1905 
Titanic sinks on April 15, 1912. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of the disaster. April 16, 1912 
The Tall Cowboy - Ralph E. Madsen with Senator Morris Sheppard, 1919 
Dancers of the National American Ballet, 20 August 1924 
Monument Circle. Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1907 
President Lincoln meeting with General 'Little Mac' McClellan in the General's tent at Antietam in the wake of his controversial decisions, September 1862 
G.I.'s of the 79th Infantry Division fighting through 'Bocage' terrain in Normandy, France, mid-July 1944 
Filling Station: Washington, DC 1924 
General Eisenhower and Bradley sharing a laugh in a Normandy orchard, sometime after Operation Overlord, 1944 
Civil War Powder Monkey - Charleston, SC 1865 
Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1915 
British troops cheerfully board their train for the first stage of their trip to the western front - England, September 20, 1939 
A novel car radio fitted to a Model T, made for the Potomac Electric Company. Washington DC, 1924 
Lt (JG) Tom ‘TK’ Killefer of VF-17 after Forced Landing, Nissan Island, March 1944 
Couple riding a motorcycle in Washington, D.C., 1929 
'Old Gold', Country store, 1939 
Girls Marksmanship Class, 1942 
Unemployed men outside Al Capone's soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, 1931 
World War II propaganda posters in Port Washington, New York, on July 8, 1942 
Romanov sisters, Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana, 1910 
A mother helps her child off the trolley on a Broadway in New York City, July 1913 
Unemployed lumber worker, 1939 
Newsies enjoying a well earned smoke break, 1910 
40mm guns firing aboard USS Hornet, February 1945 
Easter Eggs for Hitler, 1944 
Pvt. Gordon Conrey of Milford, N.H., one of the first Americans to visit Versailles (place of WW1 peace treaty) after its liberation from the Germans in 1944 
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:17:20 PM EDT
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That picture from Mardi Gras, looks like a painting.
The guy on the far right sitting down in that BoB pic, has to be Malarkey! |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:18:37 PM EDT
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very nice. thanks for sharing |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:19:23 PM EDT
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They are different from us. They look like they aren't thinking about the same things. They look simpler, and happier
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:21:02 PM EDT
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They are different from us. They look like they aren't thinking about the same things. They look simpler, and happier There is barely anyone smiling. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:35:51 PM EDT
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Great pictures thanks for sharing.
I tend to get lost thinking it was such a drab world when every old photo is blk/wht This really gives dimention and feeling to the photos. I don't know if everyone thinks that way but it is touching to say the least. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:37:20 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Eureka Colorado, late 1800s
Is that a satellite dish? 
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:41:27 PM EDT
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Golden Gate Bridge 1940
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:43:45 PM EDT
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Neat photos! Love the little kid watching TV in his suit. Wish kids where dressed that way today.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:47:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Great pictures thanks for sharing. I tend to get lost thinking it was such a drab world when every old photo is blk/wht This really gives dimention and feeling to the photos. I don't know if everyone thinks that way but it is touching to say the least. No, I think this way too. When we see the ancient Greek and Egyptian ruins we think the world of the ancients were all drab stone, sand, and dirt. Recently, archaeologists have determined all those drab ruins was actually painted like a psychedelic poster. The Great pyramid was originally covered in polished white limestone that made it shine like a mirror under the sun. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:50:28 PM EDT
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no chemtrails!!
  They all look skinny and fit, the type of skinny I'm hoping to get to.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:51:51 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Really cool. I always wonder how accurate the color is in these....is there a way to tell what the original colors are from a black and white photo? |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:51:55 PM EDT
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No, I think this way too. When we see the ancient Greek and Egyptian ruins we think the world of the ancients were all drab stone, sand, and dirt. Recently, archaeologists have determined all those drab ruins was actually painted like a psychedelic poster. The Great pyramid was originally covered in polished white limestone that made it shine like a mirror under the sun. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Great pictures thanks for sharing. I tend to get lost thinking it was such a drab world when every old photo is blk/wht This really gives dimention and feeling to the photos. I don't know if everyone thinks that way but it is touching to say the least. No, I think this way too. When we see the ancient Greek and Egyptian ruins we think the world of the ancients were all drab stone, sand, and dirt. Recently, archaeologists have determined all those drab ruins was actually painted like a psychedelic poster. The Great pyramid was originally covered in polished white limestone that made it shine like a mirror under the sun. Yup! Most of Rome's ancient buildings were covered in beautiful marble but got pilfered over the ages |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:52:39 PM EDT
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Once you allow for the goofball hairdos, those Romanov chicks were actually pretty cute. Only the [censored] Communists would be so cold so as to shoot hot chicks in the head.
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:55:11 PM EDT
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Even if the colors aren't exact, it makes the photos more fascinating.
Some things look good in B&W, but news/action shots are not one of those subjects. |
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Posted: 3/16/2015 2:59:24 PM EDT
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wow ...that's all i can say.artist did a great job with the color
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