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[Oznell]

Remember master colorist Marina Amaral's painstaking work coloring the photos of Auschwitz prisoners?

She continues to bring history to life with her work.

Here's Annie Oakley as she must have looked to her contemporaries.

New York banana docks, circa 1890-- 1910.  Amazing.

Young Kenyan woman in 1909:

Civil War General William Sherman:

I'm totally inconsistent--  I loathe colorized movies, yet I love this authentic colorizing of figures and places in history, because of the way it brings us so close to them!

[spiderw]

What great historical pictures!  I do get pictures through e-mail from different people and always enjoy them.  Most are black and white but I have received colorized pictures which really stand out.  Love history!

[Love my grandkids]

@Oznell Thank you for sharing, those are really quite stunning! I love any photos from the Civil War or that era. I've seen old photos of Annie Oakley but this is wonderful!

[VegasBusinessWoman]

WOWZA!😮  Those are amazing!

Thanks, @Oznell  for the trip back in time 100+ years.

[Catiele]

So very interesting. My father used to bring the produce to market at 3:30 in the morning by horse and buggy. He was the oldest of thirteen children. I loved going to the farm. I have a picture of the old farmhouse on the wall.

[Flatbush]

Can't get over how realistic the pictures all look. Thanks for posting.

[twinsister]

@Oznell  Wow - great pictures!   Thanks for sharing!

[golding76]

What a novel experience you brought to us, oznell.  Thank you so much.

My, but Annie Oakley has porcelain skin and a lovely profile.

[Oznell]

Yeah, @golding76 ,  her expertise as a digital colorist allows her to get extraordinary flesh tones.

I appreciate that she is known for doing meticulous research, so that she is finding out the actual original colors in the items depicted.

Black and white photos (which are almost the only ones I have on display in my house) have their own charm;  but when she turns dusty, gray-ish century old photographs into accurate pictorial depictions, it is so moving. 

We think, wow, except for the fashions, etc. those people look modern-- they look like any people we might encounter now.   But I guess it's more accurate to say, they just look "real" and timeless in their natural coloration...

[Oznell]

Jersey shore, 1905