This collection of old photos are just amazing

http://www.vintagephotos.com/Image%20503%20Central%20Park%20Reflections.jpg

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remains of causeway, Miami Beach after 1927 hurricane

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/small/sm2485.jpg

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@MontereyJack,

I take it you are unfamiliar with the Checkers/cloth coat speech.

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Here's my contribution taken in Chicago last month.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/imposter222/IMG_3096.jpg

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@cicerone imposter,

lovely photo

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I think these may have been mentioned elsewhere, but these color photographs of Tsarist Russia, taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, are simply amazing. Like, for instance, this photo of a monastery taken in 1910:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-6040.jpg

The site also explains Prokudin-Gorskii's ingenious technique for taking these three-color photographs -- it was very similar to the technique that the Technicolor process would eventually use in movies.

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@joefromchicago,

the color in 100 year old photos is unsettling. There's some modern generations that feel there was no color before 1940:

"That’s the story of my life
Right there in black and white

And if it looks like we were scared to death
Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other
You should have seen it in color

A picture’s worth a thousand words
But you can’t see what those shades of gray keep covered
You should have seen it in color"

thanks joe for a truly amazing link

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@joefromchicago,

Fabulous, Joe.

Matthew Brady's Civil War photo's

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h59000/h59426.jpg

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Not surprisingly, the Library of Congress has lots of old photos -- some of its collections can be found here(along with a bunch of other interesting stuff). One collection I find particularly interesting: photos from the old Chicago Daily News, including this one of Grover Cleveland Alexander in 1916:

http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0607/s060741.jpg

Not only is this a rare photo of a Hall-of-Fame pitcher holding a bat, but it shows the single-deck grandstand of what would become known as Wrigley Field, only two years after it had been built (the upper deck wouldn't be added until 1927).

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@joefromchicago,

I have to admit I did not realize that there was any such a thing as color photography in 1910. The only "color" photographs I'd seen from that period were always "tinted" by hand, not actually recorded that way on film. I'm fascinated.

(And that's one hell of a photo, no matter how it was made.)

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Frontline trenches 1917

http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/assets/images/db_images/db_sap01_ca000500_p3.jpg

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A couple of panoramic photos from the LOC:

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/07800/07824r.jpg

An image of San Francisco taken in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake.

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19500/6a19592r.jpg

San Francisco from a "captive balloon" taken just two years later. Some damage from the earthquake and fire can still be seen in the lower left foreground, but it's amazing how quickly the city recovered.

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@joefromchicago,

it's hard to believe there were so many "high-rise" buildings in 1908

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I with MA, Joe . . . i didn't know they were doing color photography at that early date. That's an amazing photo, Boss, thanks . . .

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@joefromchicago,

The Ferry building is visible in the second picture, and there's no bay bridge, but Angel Island is clearly visible too. Amazing~!

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@cicerone imposter,

Remember this, C.I.?

http://www.goforbroke.org/history/images/photo_100a.jpg

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@Letty,

I'm guessing they were part of the 442nd regimental combat team. These guys won 21 Medals Of Honor in Europe while their relatives were struggling in relocation camps all over the Western US
Talk about courage.

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@Letty,

Letty, Thank you~! Always appreciate that more Americans are aware of Japanese Americans and our contributions to this country. My two brothers and I all served in the military service; my older brother served during the Korean war. Our older son served two deployments to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War.

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One of my favorite Walker Evans photos taken at Manzanar 1943

http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppprs/00200/00218v.jpg

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@joefromchicago,

Thanks for this set of photos. My father was born in 1906 in Santa Rosa, a few months after the earthquake if I remember right. I've seen the city earthquake pics before, but not this second one.

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This collection of old photos are just amazing

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