The Denver Post blog has a stunning collection of 70 color photographs from a time when we’re conditioned to see things in black and white. (Seriously, historic photos in b/w always flip a switch in my brain that they’re from a movie and not reality.)
(via Boing Boing)
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10 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Those are pretty great, what I find amazing is how gritty and dirty the people look in those pictures. I think the B/W really flattens out everything and makes old pictures feel quaint. Funny how some of those pictures of the towns closely resemble how some of the small towns in southern MO still look today.
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Things like this make it okay that I haven’t built my time machine yet. Thanks for finding this!
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Arrrrggghhh! Curses! The company firewalls won’t load the photos. This will have to wait till I get home. Little white box with a red x, I hate thee!
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Loved these, love vintage photography.
My cheesy secret? Reminisce magazine, the “unicorn chaser” for life apart from the internet. They feature pages of old photos taken from color slides and there’s a mind-turning rush to view what looks like a picture taken yesterday and it’s 60 years old and it’s shocking to realize that everyone in the shot is either old or dead.
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These pictures are great, and I can’t get over Napoleon Dynamite making an appearance in photo 16!
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This is really cool. Everyone here is older than my grandma!
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If you like these, then you’ll love Mango Falls This site holds a strange fascination for me, how much has and has not changed in a lifetime. I found the site via this one ( credit where its due, thanks Chris ).
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these were some intense photographs.
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Hey I thought they were supposed to be hungry. There’s a lot of food in those photos!
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Drea,
Most of those folks WERE hungry! The big spread you see in picture 1 was almost certainly the one meal that the family shared that day. Lots of grain, fruit and starch (if you could get it) and a wee bit o’ meat. The diet these people subsided on was barely enough to keep them on their feet, considering their heavy workload. And before any of my Veggie/Vegan friends chirp in: No, you cannot carry out a full day in the fields without some protein and/or sugars to produce energy.
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