#history in color

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

I haven’t colorized in a long time! Anyway, here’s Olga and Maria, c. 1912. The first is the original black and white; the second is a version I did last year in December; and the third is one I did recently. Lots of options!

[colourbymarie]

Maria Feodorovna and Queen Alexandra

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[guy60660]

History in Color

[romanovsotma]

Princesses Elisabeth, Gabrielle and Sophie in Bavaria, 1900s

[colourbylou]

Adorable glass negative scan from the C.M. Bell collection.

A young girl, surname Ketcham, playing with blocks, dated between 1905 and 1909.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, 2016709818, LC-DIG-bellcm-22379, No known restrictions on publication.

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[charlesoberonn]

[prokopetz]

It's a rough world out there for people who were teenagers during the exact slice of gaming history where indie video games had become feasible to develop and distribute globally, but the definition of "indie" didn't yet encompass corporate studios and million-dollar budgets. They'll tell you their favourite game when they were a kid was, like, a point-and-click visual novel whose protagonist dreams they're a vast formless sea monster that learns about the concept of colours after finding a discarded helium balloon, or a hypertext fiction/precision platformer hybrid exploring gender as a mechanism of social control, and you think they're either being pretentious or deliberately fucking with you, but no, that's just what the indie gaming scene was like for a couple of years there. The sea monster thing got a front-page feature on the same site that made Bloons Tower Defense a household name – it was literally played by millions of people.

[eroticlamb]

Cover art illustrated by Satsuko Okamoto for Teen Look magazine, circa 1960s ★

[s0up1ta]

they're so doomed yaoi i hate them

full thing under the cut:

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

"He was always amused by the likeness between him and his cousin, King George. One day he showed me a photograph of the latter, saying, 'Have you seen my last photograph, Lili? Doesn’t it flatter me?'" – Lili Dehn

[antimonyantigone]

M*A*S*H Pilot Text & Grandfather's Kodachrome from Korean War (year unknown)

[lionofchaeronea]

Women Watching Stars, Ōta Chōu, 1936

[ayandagama]

kukhanya.k

[romanovsotma]

Princess Charlotte of Prussia, eldest daughter of Crown Princess Victoria and Crown Prince Frederick (future German Emperor and Empress) in July 1873.

[victusinveritas]

Double leg amputee railway signalman, James Wide, photographed working alongside his pet and assistant, Jack Baboon, in Cape Town during the 1880s. James Wide purchased a chacma baboon in 1881 and trained him to push his wheelchair and operate the railway signals under supervision. Credit: color_byangelina on Instagram

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