One of my favorite twitter feeds is BabelColour by Stuart Humphryes where he takes old color photos and reprints them, sometimes with restoration but never colourised. It's worth browsing through. Some recent examples:
I've restored this original colour autochrome from 1926, taken at the proposed site of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana. The chap on the right (named Curley) was one of General Custer’s scouts. (This isn't colourised). pic.twitter.com/zOkLIanjJL
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) July 21, 2020
As one of my random photo restoration Tweets, I offer this beautiful early colour shot by Gustave Gain, taken around 1919. I've not colourised it or added any new colour - but I've rebalanced and boosted what was already there in the original autochrome to make it rather magical pic.twitter.com/WNfmROvVYq
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) April 16, 2020
Has an army ever looked so ill-prepared for modern warfare? This astounding (original colour) photo from 1913 shows the 7th regiment of French armoured cavalrymen at their camp northeast of Lyon in France, only a year before they joined the insanity of the First World War. pic.twitter.com/DXwmQ4kqC1
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) July 29, 2020
Here is another old autochome I've restored for you, taken 111 years ago at the first Paris Air Show in September 1909. (It isn't colourised). pic.twitter.com/jgvG4n5Zgi
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) July 22, 2020
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