More historic colourized photos

hollydolly

hollydolly

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It's amazing that once colour has been added it makes the subject look very modern and not something that looks old fashioned despite being anything up to 200 years old....I'm fascinated by photo colourization

Washington DC car crash 1921


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henry Ford 1919

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An Oklahoma farmer during the great dust bowl 1939... ( he's so poor this picture actually looks like it could have been taken 100 years before, I wonder if the children in this picture are still alive today)

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Baltimore slums 1938

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Unemployed lumber work and his wife 1939 ( the wife looks very much like the fashion and style of today, yet she would have been in great poverty)

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Johann Strauss II & Johannes Brahms - Bad Ischl, Austria - 1894



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Building the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1881.

Whitby, Northern England fisherman 1900

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I love photos like these!!!

I enlarged the unemployed lumber worker and his wife, trying to see what the tattoo on his arm was. It just looks like numbers. I wonder why?
 
These are incredible photos, holly. Each of the photos has a story to tell and I could stare and imagine all day what the stories might be. I would like to imagine that both the lumber worker and his wife work separate jobs. They both stay at the husband's lumber camp on the wife's days off. She works in town and lives there working in a sewing factory. She makes her own clothes as many did in those days. And I'll bet the husband cleans up quite nicely when he stays with her in town on his off days.

My imagination is drawing a blank on the tattoo. Unless he's a prisoner and if he bolts from the lumber camp, the numbered tattoo will serve as identification if he's caught. I'll bet Meanderer can find the story behind this photo. He has magical powers for that sort of thing. The photo caption says he's an unemployed lumber worker though so that would shoot holes in the prisoner theory.
 
I agree Ladies... I have the same thoughts and imaginations as you all when it comes to Vintage pictures and wondering about the backgrounds and lifestyles , and isn't it interesting everyone noticed the lumber worker..most..

I haven't a clue about the number tattooed either..I did think he might have been a prison inmate number but I don't think it would be so neat!!
 
Holly, I so enjoyed these photos! I notice so much more when they are colorized so well as these have been.

I have the Shorpy Gordonton NC July 1939 country store, and I love it, but I only have the B&W. Seeing it colorized was a thrill.

Joan Crawford; did you know her real name was Lucille LeSeur?

Amazing to see Times Square with a few buildings still not covered in neon signs!

The lumber worker and his wife I had seen before in B&W, but never noticed the tattoo. It was 1939. Could he have been escaped from a Nazi concentration camp? I'm not aware if American prisoners were tattooed.

Anyway, I enjoyed them, thanks!
 
I too thought about the concentration camp angle as a possibility RR.. ..but then I dismissed it because I think the Nazi's tattoed the numbers on the forearm only , however I'm very prepared to be corrected..

I didn't know JC's name was French, thanks for that little nugget, :D

..and I so agree, we do notice so much more in a colour photo than in B&W, and you know despite the technology today which gives us fantastic shots, there's a rawness about these pictures which somehow gives them so much more clarity..
 
The tattoo format appeared to me to be that of a Social Security number. I searched online and came up with a site that shows it as being:

*SSA*
535-07-5248

It says that the number belonged to Thomas Cave, who was born in July 1912 and died in 1980 in Portland, OR.

Ya' know, I read it on the internet so it MUST be true.
 
Tommy said:
The tattoo format appeared to me to be that of a Social Security number. I searched online and came up with a site that shows it as being:

*SSA*
535-07-5248

It says that the number belonged to Thomas Cave, who was born in July 1912 and died in 1980 in Portland, OR.

Ya' know, I read it on the internet so it MUST be true.
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Oh wow, I hope that's true....
 
Tommy said:
The tattoo format appeared to me to be that of a Social Security number. I searched online and came up with a site that shows it as being:

*SSA*
535-07-5248

It says that the number belonged to Thomas Cave, who was born in July 1912 and died in 1980 in Portland, OR.

Ya' know, I read it on the internet so it MUST be true.
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It must be, Tommy, I couldn't read the SSA part but that could stand for Social Security Administration.
 
hollydolly said:
I too thought about the concentration camp angle as a possibility RR.. ..but then I dismissed it because I think the Nazi's tattoed the numbers on the forearm only , however I'm very prepared to be corrected..

I didn't know JC's name was French, thanks for that little nugget, :D

..and I so agree, we do notice so much more in a colour photo than in B&W, and you know despite the technology today which gives us fantastic shots, there's a rawness about these pictures which somehow gives them so much more clarity..
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Holly, I just remembered something about a neighbor I had long ago. I'd never met her, but another neighbor told me she had been rescued from a concentration camp in her youth and that she had a tattoo of numbers on her forearm, so it is as you said.
 

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