#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!

[antimonyantigone]

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

[colourbymarie]

Maria Feodorovna and Queen Alexandra

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[guy60660]

History in Color

[barfouniverse]

German soldiers crowded around a Christmas tree celebrating Christmas somewhere on the Western Front during World War I.

[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 ★

[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]

Hello! I am in LOVE with the images you've shared from your Grandfather's slides. I was wondering if there were more you have shared elsewhere or if you have any intention of sharing more. They are gorgeous and your grandfather had quite an eye. Particularly the one of the fog in the valleys captured from a up a mountain. Thank you for sharing these!

Hi!

Sorry I sat on this ask for a while. This set of photos is particularly valuable to me but also really fraught due to family drama. For full disclosure, I never met the man. He is my "step-father's" father and he died in the 90s. However, I consider my (late) step-father to be my real father, and that, and these photos, have become the subject of some nasty family nonsense.

In any case, yes, I always wanted to share them more than anything. I scanned them for this reason. There is so little color photo from the Korean War and most of what we have was taken by journalist. However, my grandfather was an early adopter of a lot of technology and that includes color photo for amateurs.

Here's a favorite

I've put a few others under the tag "kodachrome" though those are mostly one's I've MASHified (like the one below)

However, you can view them all at this Google Drive link.

[s0up1ta]

they're so doomed yaoi i hate them

full thing under the cut:

[lionofchaeronea]

Women Watching Stars, Ōta Chōu, 1936

[the-stimmerh]

do you love the color of the sky?

which one?

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