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Historical black and white photos in color

January 22, 2012 @ 11:26 am

I stumbled upon this page of historical black and white photos artificially colored in to look like they were taken on color film. Pretty amazing how realistic these look.

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Mastergram: using Instagram filters on iconic and historical photos

September 6, 2011 @ 8:47 pm

Photo: Hiroshi Sugimoto Tim just sent over this link to a website called Mastergram that takes iconic and important historical photos and puts Instagram filters over them. Are they better? Worse? Do they make them more interesting to the non-photographic … Continue reading →

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Historical photos of the New York City Subway

October 22, 2010 @ 4:31 pm

Photo from The New York Times This is the great photo find of the week! The New York Times has an incredible collection of old New York City Subway photos dating from the 1900′s to the 2000′s. Here are a … Continue reading →

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Historic Australian newspapers digitized

February 4, 2009 @ 10:31 am

The National Library of Australia has launched a beta page of historic Australian newspapers from 1803 to 1954 that you can view in full for free. The site is similar to The New York Times’ TimeMachine archive except of course … Continue reading →

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