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Thursday, March 10, 2011

History / Photo Old Things Don't Look All That Old in Color

Posted by Denis C. Theriault on Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:36 PM

Earlier this month, we got some color snaps of Shackleton's 1915 Antarctic trip. Pretty nifty. But they're not quite as captivating as what the Smithsonian put out this week: Full color photos of a San Francisco freshly wrecked by the 1906 earthquake.

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Click here to see more. Is it me, or is it a little jarring to see that a city, 100 years ago, really did have bright colors and sunshine, and not just the sad, Dickensian, child-labor-filled grays that fill black-and-white photos? Take away the old-timey billboard, and my brain has no trouble thinking these images are from no older than a smoggy, barren 1965.

 

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... or Detroit circa yesterday.
Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on March 10, 2011 at 4:43 PM · Report
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it's not just you. It's weird. That looks like the 1950's or early 1960s with the buildings and the film stock.
Posted by Commenty Colin on March 10, 2011 at 7:33 PM · Report
3
These are great, thank you for posting. Finally something worthy of my time on Blogtown!
Posted by Wubbles on March 10, 2011 at 7:56 PM · Report
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Yes, may we please aspire to be Wubbles-
worthy?
Posted by Todd Mecklem on March 10, 2011 at 8:06 PM · Report

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