Early Color Photography - America 1939-1943

[scott]

This is GREAT!
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured...rom-1939-1943/

[CAlexio]

thanks for posting... those are fantastic photos.. really brings those times to life

[gragravar]

wow, great find. thanks for passing these along

[Bill_Anderson]

Thanks for posting. I have ridden through Cascade, ID (photo #26). I now have to find Pie Town, New Mexico.

[markg]

The next time you feel deprived because you can't buy a new Ducati or Porsche every year, think back to how some of these people had to scrape a living out of almost nothing.

[corks67]

in a similar vein .....

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ntury_ago.html

With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948