I came across this amazing article with a bunch of amazing color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912 by photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944). 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.
Truly incredible, click through for all of the photos.
i love your site as well! I have a ton of chicago photos because i mainly collect around the chicago area, i will send some your way!
my friend sent me this amazing tumblr with old chicago ephemera, check it out!
Art class at the Art Institute, c.1925, Chicago.
This amazing site from the New York Public Library called the “Stereogranimator” allows you to make 3D anaglyphs and animated GIFs from stereographs!
So cool. Click through for the awesome site!
This photo comes from a blog post about “Hidden” or “Invisible Mothers. It was often common practice to have mother’s holding their children in photographs for stability and comfort, but covered up and hidden so that the photo was just of the children.
Pretty wild. Check out the flick group here or click the photo to head to the blog post.
Here is the second of the two photos. So whimsical.
This is the first of two photos of this girl and her reflection. I will post the other photo tomorrow. I got these from the Kane County Flea Market. They were more than I usually spend on photos but have turned out to be a couple of my favorites!
I’ve had this photo forever but I’ve never posted it because it’s been hanging on my wall for just as long. Such a great photo, definitely one of my favorites.
These are members of my fiance’s extended family, The Wagners taken in 1939.
This is a photo of my fiance’s grandmother holding his father and his aunt.
