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gabeana

(3,166 posts) Tue Sep 18, 2012, 05:49 PM Sep 2012

color photos from 1930's and 40's

found this awesome link online today

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-501465_162-10011709.html?tag=page

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color photos from 1930's and 40's (Original Post) gabeana Sep 2012 OP

Interesting, very good quality. Confused me though: Populist_Prole Sep 2012 #1

Quite a bit of the A part of the world was in color. The B part was black and white. n/t dimbear Sep 2012 #3

Same here, somehow it seems as if the pre-me past occurred in black and white. nt raccoon Sep 2012 #6

Those are great! graywarrior Sep 2012 #2

Fascinating tjwmason Sep 2012 #4

The reason was because it was quite expensive Major Nikon Sep 2012 #8

Cool! Who knew the Library of Congress had a Flickr account... TreasonousBastard Sep 2012 #5

I've seen some of those images before at this site Bombero1956 Sep 2012 #7

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)

1. Interesting, very good quality. Confused me though:

Reply to gabeana (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 08:14 PM

Sep 2012

I was watching some old movies on TCM and I could have sworn the whole world was in black & white in those days. Go figure.

Really though, seeing color makes it more believable somehow; like I could see myself being there without too much a stretch of imagination.

dimbear

(6,271 posts)

3. Quite a bit of the A part of the world was in color. The B part was black and white. n/t

Reply to Populist_Prole (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:51 AM

Sep 2012

raccoon

(31,111 posts)

6. Same here, somehow it seems as if the pre-me past occurred in black and white. nt

Reply to Populist_Prole (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 02:15 PM

Sep 2012

graywarrior

(59,440 posts)

2. Those are great!

Reply to gabeana (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:15 PM

Sep 2012

Thanks for posting.

tjwmason

(14,819 posts)

4. Fascinating

Reply to gabeana (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 03:45 PM

Sep 2012

Thanks for posting...it took a remarkably long time for the technology to spread.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

8. The reason was because it was quite expensive

Reply to tjwmason (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 21, 2012, 02:28 AM

Sep 2012

Kodachrome came out in the mid 30's, but both the film and the processing were much more expensive than B&W.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

5. Cool! Who knew the Library of Congress had a Flickr account...

Reply to gabeana (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 03:45 AM

Sep 2012

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/

Apparently, these were done on Kodachrome, which was very expensive back then, so the number of chromes was limited.

But, while Kodachrome made color photography available to the (well-off) masses, guess when and where this one was taken:

Bombero1956

(3,539 posts)

7. I've seen some of those images before at this site

Reply to gabeana (Original post)

Fri Sep 21, 2012, 01:10 AM

Sep 2012

http://www.shorpy.com

They have lots of images in color and black & white.

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