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packman

(16,296 posts)
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 11:18 AM Oct 2016

Coming to America - colorized pixs of immigrants at Ellis Island

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Many of the 12 million people who entered the US through New York’s Ellis Island wore traditional dress from their homelands. The early 1900s images by chief registry clerk Augustus Francis Sherman have been brought to life by colorists at Dynamichrome. The photos will form part of a book called The Paper Time Machine, by Wolfgang Wilding and Jordan Lloyd, which is currently being crowdsourced


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http://designyoutrust.com/2016/10/color-portraits-of-immigrants-at-ellis-island/
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Coming to America - colorized pixs of immigrants at Ellis Island (Original Post) packman Oct 2016 OP
These are incredible! smirkymonkey Oct 2016 #1
Makes our outfits today look pretty bland. Egnever Oct 2016 #2
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
1. These are incredible!
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 12:51 PM
Oct 2016

Thank you for posting! I never get tired of looking at old photographs. They just fascinate me!

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