Incredible color photos from 1940s America!

I found this by accident: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=142692

I'll just post a few here.

The whole collection is just amazing.

wow that's some trippy shit. For some reason its nearly impossible for me to visualize that era of time in colour.

Those shots of Chicago are especially awesome.

They are amazingly clear, and still contain that authentic atmosphere about them, incredible, thanks for this.

Great find, reminds me of this famous TVA photo:

awesome. i am a history buff and i fucking love this shit. thank you.

cool shit.

remind me of prokudin-gorsky, a man truly ahead of his time.

Monastery of St. Nilus on Stolbny Island in Lake Seliger near Ostashkov, (1910!)

a prison in Uzbekistan (1907)

Kama river near Perm (1910)

My personal fav: Alim Khan (1880–1944), emir of Bukhara

  On 10/1/2009 at 6:17 AM, dr lopez said:

 

thom yorke has rly let himself go.

whered you get those?

1910? thats fucking astounding.

  On 10/1/2009 at 6:23 AM, essines said:

whered you get those?

those ones are on wikipedia

but there are 3000+ medium ones of his here: http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/database.php3?first=0

this is very sad and nerdy of me to say but all of these photos remind me of Fall Out >.>

Here are thousands more from the collection I posted:

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/browse/yearBrowse.jsp

  On 10/1/2009 at 6:35 AM, thanksomuch said:

this is very sad and nerdy of me to say but all of these photos remind me of Fall Out >.>

Not at all, the bridge picture definetly reminded me of fallout 3.

  On 10/1/2009 at 6:42 AM, chaosmachine said:

Here are thousands more from the collection I posted:

 

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/browse/yearBrowse.jsp

These are amazing...happened to be looking at them when Dupe's Vistareel came up on my mp3 player, truly eerie experience. Many of these are so proto-BoC:

this is fucking stunning

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Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries.

damn...

(1941)

is everybody ready to see some stunning color photography of Adolf Hitler and the SS ?

these are fantastic! lots of inspiration here

i won't wait for the answer

the rest are here - http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=151191

this is only 1/20th of them

that's nothing, i've seen color video of him in his bunker right before he died.

just after they cancelled his xbox account?

sweet pics!

Thank you for posting these!