Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1917 Ross Sea Party, which was stranded in a hut when their ship blew out to sea, left a box of never-before-seen negatives when they were finally rescued. Recently, Conservators of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust came across the 22 exposed, but unprocessed, cellulose nitrate negatives during an attempt to restore an old exploration hut.
Esther Bubley has such an interested eye, and it comes through in her photography in a way that is unmistakeable. Here, two men at Greyhound Bus Terminal in 1947 NYC.
Shots from the 1950s and 60s compiled by AirlineRatings.com, it is a flying experience totally foreign to me. If I could get this sort of experience at the prices I pay today, I'd be all for it.
An American Odyssey reveals the archive of the Detroit Photographic Company from the late 1880s to the early 1920s.
Using a photolithographic technique called Photochrom, black-and-white negatives were reproduced in color.
The NYC subway was a very different place in the 70s and 80s. This photoset from Christopher Morris is stark and stunning.
In 1924 the first Winter Olympics, in Chamonix France, had a mere 250 athletes, in 6 sports: skating, curling, ‘nordic skiing’, ‘bobsleigh’, ice hockey and a military patrol competition (similar to modern Biathlon).
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Sarasota has been the winter headquarters for a number of circuses, most notably the Ringling Brothers Circus (there is of course, their legacy: Ringling Museum, Ringling School of Art and Design, for example).
Here from the pages of LIFE magazine are some day-in-the-life photos of the circus girls in Sarasota in and around 1949.
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Charlie Chaplin at 27, 1916
Colorized by BenAfleckIsAnOkActor
Filling in what's missing from iconic Black & White photos, namely, the color, has an amazing impact on our perception and connection with the subjects. Of course, it is a matter of invention and conjecture, but stunning none the less. A whole bunch of amazing ones over at a group on reddit, called r/ColorizedHistory.
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Hindenburg Disaster – May 6, 1937
Colorozed by: Dana Keller
Elizabeth Taylor – Giant (1956 film)
Colorized by: malakon
Mark Twain in the Garden, circa 1900
Colorized by: zuzahin
Walt Whitman, 1887
Colorized by: Danna Keller
View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864
Colorized by: Sanna Dullaway
Nikola Tesla, 1893
Colorized by: Danna Keller
Audrey Hepburn
Colorized by: Danna Keller
Japanese Archers, circa 1860
Colorized by: photojacker
Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, NY
Colorized by: Edvos
Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921
Colorized by: Sanna Dullaway
Marilyn Monroe
Colorized by malakon
