This is a collection of historical photos. Some very old, some not; all are worth seeing...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

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http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=d6d9d5385aee

[logosoco]

1. How cool.

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]

2. I'm so glad you enjoyed these, my dear logosoco!

I thought these were exceptionally well colorized, since I normally don't like that technique.

Thanks for stopping by!

[Deny and Shred]

3. Thank you for posting this

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]

4. I was glad to do it, my dear Deny and Shred!

A friend of my husband's sent it and I felt that DU would find it interesting.

[Deny and Shred]

5. Thanks again

Butch Cassidy bore a remarkable resemblance to Kurt Russell IMO.

[mcar]

6. Wonderful!

I love these kinds of links. Thank you Peggy.

[Little Star]

7. Nice! Thanks.

[panader0]

8. How excellent!

[monmouth3]

9. Thank you so much CalPeg. Many of those pics are only ten, twenty years older than

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]

10. Lovely. Thank you.

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]

11. would that I could give this 10000000 recs.

Thanks for this find, my dear California Peggy!

[Raine1967]

12. Truly amazing and breathtaking!

Thank you so much for posting this link.

[Gin]

13. Amazing

Thanks for posting!

[rurallib]

14. One of your best posts ever, Peggy

Thanks so much for sharing

[ReRe]

15. Thanks, CaliforniaPeggy

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]

16. All have appear to have been colorized

so interesting but.... BLAH!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Yeah, that is my understanding.

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]

17. Very nice, thank you for posting.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

19. WOW - thanks for posting!!

[cwydro]

20. Kick

so I can look later. At work now.

[Lonusca]

21. Thank you

I will be sharing this. Excellent montage

[ybbor]

22. Super Cool!

Thanks for sharing!

[JohnnyRingo]

23. All were amazing.

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]

24. Colorized or not...

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]

25. Great stuff.. stunning images

excellent coloring too

[RKP5637]

26. Incredible! Thank you for posting! n/t

[kwassa]

27. Why did they add color to them?

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]

30. My guess is to make them seem more life-like to us.

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]

70. I remember seeing a colorized version of the film [i]The Maltese Falcon[/i]

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]

28. Interesting

[Enthusiast]

29. Thank you, CaliforniaPeggy.

That was awesome.

[happyslug]

31. Here is a cite of ACTUAL COLOR PHOTOS 1900-1915

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/544/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. Thank you for sharing! They are lovely. n/t

[happyslug]

41. Here are some of the Photos, with photos of the same site today:

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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]

44. Wonderful photos.

Thanks for posting.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. Thank you for your considerable labor!

I'm always curious how the sights from the past compare with how they are today. These are wonderful.

[Rod Beauvex]

81. .

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]

33. So many great photos. The pugilists before regulation of boxing… holy smokes!

I usually don't like colorized historical photos but they do sort of bring to life.

[cwydro]

45. I usually don't either, but

you're exactly right. It made them more lifelike.

And after all, those people lived in color too lol.

[Va Lefty]

34. That was awesome! Thanks

[blackspade]

35. Very nice. Thanks!

[madokie]

36. Awesome

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]

37. Magnificent

Thanks

[mrmpa]

38. Wondered what a "Doffer Boy" was...........

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]

39. I wondered about that too, my dear mrmpa...

I thought perhaps it was a family name.

Thanks for looking it up!

[mrmpa]

58. A thank you to you, and you're welcome. Beautiful pictures. eom

[cwydro]

43. Ugh

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]

60. Yes it was. and you're welcome. eom

[marym625]

40. WOW

Thank you

[cwydro]

42. Recced and bookmarked.

I'm a history fanatic.

Thank you Peg.

[niyad]

46. k and r for these amazing pics

[CaptainTruth]

47. Warning to Android phone users: Crashed my phone.

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]

48. Very interesting!

Thanks! bookmarked

[UTUSN]

50. R#87 & K for, is this the first time I've said ty to you? (not a question) n/t

[sheshe2]

51. Brava!

Those are awesome Peggy!

Thank you!

[Rhiannon12866]

52. K&R! Wow! Just incredible, heartbreakingly clear...

Definitely worth seeing! Thanks so much for posting!

[cwydro]

53. Kicking again

I love these old pics

[CaliforniaPeggy]

54. I thank you, my dear cwydro...

They are truly amazing, aren't they? I love them too.

[Kablooie]

55. A lot of these were done by Sanna Dullaway, an amazing colorist.

Check out some more of her work:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/sannadullaway/portfolio/popular

http://mygrapefruit.deviantart.com/gallery/

[FourScore]

56. Thank you, CaliforniaPeggy!

this is wonderful!

[liberalmuse]

57. Very powerful.

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]

59. Where we've been.

[burrowowl]

61. K&R

Cooooool!

[h2ebits]

62. Wow!

Some of these look so real that you expect the people to start moving at any moment.

[marble falls]

63. I think these are the best colorized b&W photos I've ever seen. Very nice find. Thankyou for posting

[spanone]

64. thank you CP

[defacto7]

65. The stories that rise in my mind

with each photo... it's like projecting into the past.

Thanks you Peggy.

[Live and Learn]

66. K&R nt

[intaglio]

67. For those wondering about "Doffer Boys"

They were employed to take full spindles from a spinning frame and replace them with empty ones.

Doffer

[merrily]

68. Thanks, CP. They are great. Some easier to look at than others, but

you nailed it: all are worth seeing.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

69. In that picture of Butch Cassidy,

The Sundance Kid (Harry Longbough) is the man seated on the left.

[nc4bo]

71. Does any one here know the copyright status of these amazing photos?

Very curious.

TIA

[allan01]

72. lovely photos

nice collection. the page too flash heavy for my oold computer . liked the one of tesla ( the inventer) by sarony. thanks

[Ninga]

73. peaceful......nt

[OldEurope]

74. FWIW, the Nazis are standing in Munich,

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]

75. Thanks for the clarification! What a cool story too.

Skulker street. I love it!

[Dont call me Shirley]

82. 9 is endings/finality. 11 is Mastery, of the high road or the low road/enlightenment/idealism

[Jack Rabbit]

76. Thank you, Peggy

[pinto]

77. Some haunting glimpses among these.

Thanks for the post.

[northoftheborder]

78. Excellent, excellent. will save and share.

[underthematrix]

79. This is fascinating. Thank you for posting

[KoKo]

80. Wonderful Pics "CP"

but the music did me in... Lovely...but so sad.