History As They Saw It: Iconic Moments from the Past in Color
By Wolfgang Wild and Jordan Lloyd
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The past didn’t actually happen in black and white, as we’re reminded by this collection of restored and colorized historic photos from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.
This revolutionary photography collection is as close to time travel as it gets. Featuring 120 historic black-and-white photographs thoroughly restored and rendered in color, this book illuminates some of the most iconic moments in history, from the sinking of the Titanic to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Brought to life with vibrant color, these incredible images effectively blur the distinction between past and present, making history feel more real and and bringing it within arm’s reach. With a timeline spanning more than 100 years, from 1839 to 1949, this unique collection will amaze history and photography buffs alike, offering new perspectives on significant moments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Reviews for History As They Saw It
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I received this book through Early Reviewers. It contains many incredible photos from throughout international history. The black and white originals are interesting but, restored and rendered in suitable hues for the time and place, they are absolutely stunning. Background information is brief and interesting and some images are accompanied by quotes from writings of the time. My only quibble with the book is that the text containing the descriptions is a light gray in a very thin font and might be difficult for some eyes to read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautifully put together book. The photographs are stunning; add the historical facts for each picture and it makes for one great coffee table book. I can pick up this book and look at it over and over. Great addition to my library
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5History as They Saw it, by Wolfgang Wild is a coffee-table-sized book, and it takes a book that big to hold its "wonderfulness." It features full pages of iconic photographs starting in 1949 and going back to 1855, with notes from the time of each photograph to notes by Wild and other modern-day people. All of the photographs are colored, either when taken or are black-and-white photographs that have been "colorized," and beautifully so in my opinion. At the back of the book are the black photographs that have been colorized. This is a book one can spend hours at a time with or just enjoy it a few pages at a time. It would be a fine gift for someone who enjoys history and/or photography. A first-rate book to use an old-fashioned expression.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Glorious colorized full-page photos from the black-and-white era. Some are famous, others are obscure photos of regular people and everyday events, but all are worth looking at. Familiar topics include the building of the Statue of Liberty, the Flatiron Building in New York City, and the Golden Gate and London Tower bridges; a four-page aerial view of San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906; a young, beardless Lincoln; the iceberg that sank the Titanic, and the Wall Street celebration following the surrender of Germany in 1918. But there are numerous anonymous subjects: immigrants at Ellis Island, many in native costumes; Confederate prisoners at Gettysburg; a child miner; a black Union soldier and his family. The earliest photo is considered to be the first photographic self-portrait taken (1839). The photos are arranged in reverse chronological order, a format I didn't really see the need for, but in the end it really doesn't matter. The last section is comprised of smaller reproductions of the original in black and white.The colorization is not quite what I expected, but I think the photos themselves sometimes defeated the best efforts. The cover picture is an example: it's not really what I would have thought of as how human eyes would have perceived the scene's colors, but hazier and more muted. A few are in true, brilliant color, such as a famous photograph from Antarctica in which the sky is a bright blue.A book to treasure and share. Even in black and white these would have been mesmerizing. Color, even muted, gives them an added dimension. Highly recommended.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5_History as They Saw It: Iconic Moments from the Past in Color_ presents 120 colorized photographs from the first century of photography. The colorization by artist Jordan Lloyd is brilliant. Many of the photographs will be familiar to the reader, and this presentation allows one to see the past much as one's ancestors did. The book is beautifully laid out in reverse chronological format. The left margin of each two-page spread contains a timeline visually depicting when each photograph occurred and a map showing where each picture was taken. There is also a four-page fold-out spread with an aerial view of San Francisco taken just after the 1906 earthquake. Fascinating and recommended! Note: I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.
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History As They Saw It - Wolfgang Wild
First published in the United States in 2018 by Chronicle Books LLC.
First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Unbound.
Copyright © 2018 by Wolfgang Wild and Jordan Lloyd.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.
ISBN 978-1-4521-6950-7 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-4521-6984-2 (epub, mobi)
Art director: Tina Smith
Designed by: Johnathan Montelongo
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Wolfgang:
This book is dedicated to Charles Shaar Murray, David Jones and Bodger. Charles Shaar Murray introduced me to David, David introduced me to myself, and Bodger stuck around for the ride. Real cool traders.
Jordan:
To Gloria and Paul, who have given me the opportunity to follow the rabbit hole into Wonderland.
Contents
pp. 2–3
Step into the time machine
Visual cover versions 2
Removing the black and white 3
pp. 4–5 | 1949
People arriving at the Chicago Theatre
pp. 6–7 | July 1947
Portrait of Art Hodes, Kaiser Marshall, Henry (Clay) Goodwin, Sandy Williams and Cecil (Xavier) Scott
pp. 8–9 | May 25, 1946
Northrop’s XB–35 Flying Wing Bomber is wheeled onto the runway for its first taxi tests
pp. 10–11 | June 1944
Private Ware applies last-second make-up to Private Plaudo
pp. 12–13 | 1943
A Douglas SBD ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber balanced on its nose after crash-landing on a carrier flight deck
pp. 14–15 | 1942
Members of the US Signal Corps at the Taj Mahal in protective bamboo scaffolding
pp. 16–17 | 1942
Grandfather of Japanese ancestry teaching his grandson to walk at Manzanar War Relocation Authority Center
pp. 18–19 | July 1939
Country store on dirt road, Sunday afternoon
pp. 20–21 | 1938
Young boy in a Baltimore slum area, Maryland
pp. 22–23 | 1937
Children’s Pioneers defense drill, Leningrad
pp. 24–25 | 1936
Florence Thompson with one of her children as part of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ series
pp. 26–27 | 1936
August Landmesser refuses to salute at a Nazi rally, Germany
pp. 28–29 | 1935
Robert Johnson, blues singer and guitarist
pp. 30–31 | 1935
Officials ride in one of the penstock pipes of the soon-to-be-completed Hoover Dam
pp. 32–33 | July 16, 1934
The Golden Gate Bridge under construction
pp. 33–34 | 1933
A ‘Hooverville’ shantytown in Central Park, New York
pp. 36–37 | 1932
The Dynasphere being tested on the beach at Weston-super-Mare by Mr. J. A. Purves of Taunton, who invented the machine with his son
pp. 38–39 | May 31, 1932
At Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum and another sculptor hang from the forehead of George Washington
pp. 40–41 | c. 1930
An overhead view of people on 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, in the heart of the Garment District, New York
pp. 42–43 | 1930s
A Confederate and a Union veteran play cards at a Civil War reunion
pp. 44–45 | October 19, 1929
Passengers surveying the scene from the verandah deck of the British Airship R100
pp. 46–47 | 1929
The HM Airship R100 nears completion at the Royal Naval Air Service Air Station near Howden in Yorkshire
pp. 48–49 | 1928
Looking down Glasshouse Street to the junction with Sherwood Street and towards the lights of Piccadilly Circus in London
pp. 50–51 | December 28, 1928
A cameraman and a sound technician record the roar of Leo the Lion for MGM’s famous movie ident
pp. 52–53 | 1926
A flock of sheep walking along the Kingsway in London
pp. 54–55 | March 28, 1925
Sakura cherry blossom, Potomac Park, Washington DC
pp. 56–57 | June 26, 1925
A female Native American telephone switchboard operator
pp. 58–59 | 1924
The ‘Hollywoodland’ sign in Los Angeles, later changed to read ‘Hollywood’
pp. 60–61 | July 1923
A punt gun, used to shoot flocks of waterbirds from a punt
pp. 62–63 | 1922
The contents of the central coffin of Tutankhamun’s tomb
pp. 64–65 | September 7, 1921
Margaret Gorman, the newly crowned Miss America, awaits the arrival of Neptune in her royal robes at the opening of the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant
pp. 66–67 | 1921
Sound amplifiers at Bolling Field Air Force Base, Washington DC
pp. 68–69 | c. 1920
A view of a trilithon being re-erected at Stonehenge
pp. 70–71 | 1920
Power house mechanic working on steam pump
pp. 72–73 | 1919
Soldiers of the 369th ‘Harlem Hellfighters’ wearing the Cross of War medal pose for a photo on their trip back to New York
pp. 74–75 | 1918
The control room of a U–boat looking aft, starboard side
pp. 76–77 | November 7, 1918
Celebrations on Wall Street, New York, following the surrender of Germany
pp. 78–79 | 1918
The interior of Amiens Cathedral with sandbag reinforcements against shell damage
pp. 80–81 | 1918
Airmen and sailors cheering the King from the aircraft carrier Argus, on his visit to the Fleet at Rosyth, Scotland. The carrier is painted in ‘dazzle’ camouflage
pp. 82–83 | 1918
A pilot smiles for the camera, Kelly Field, San Antonio
pp. 84–85 | 1918
A dirigible catches fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
pp. 86–87 | 1917
The USS Recruit, a wooden battleship built by the navy in Union Square, New York City, to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds from 1917 to 1920
pp. 88–89 | 1917
‘Jammie’ Reynolds, daredevil
pp. 90–91 | 1917
Soldiers of the 164th Depot Brigade form a service flag at Fort Riley in Kansas
pp. 92–93 | 1916
A wounded British soldier holding his steel helmet, which has been pierced by a piece of shrapnel, during the advance on the Somme front near Hamel
pp. 94–95 | May 21, 1914
Emmeline Pankhurst being removed from a suffragette protest by a policeman
pp. 96–97 | April 15, 1913
A zebra and trap and a London tram vie for business in Brixton
pp. 98–99 | 1912
Hairdresser’s shop window, Boulevard de Strasbourg (Salon de Coiffures)
pp. 100–101 | c. 1912
A young woman uses a hand-cranked battery charger to power her electric Columbia Mark 68 Victoria automobile
pp. 102–103 | 1912
The iceberg that sank the Titanic
pp. 104–105 | 1911
Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor and meteorologist Charles Wright in the entrance to an ice grotto during Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic. The Terra Nova is in the background
pp. 106–107 | August 5, 1910
The Princess May, wrecked in Alaska
pp. 108–109 | c. 1910
Father and son snapshots
‘The Broadway crowds proved that my rapid-fire picture machine was a gold mine’
Anatol Josepho, Modern Mechanics, November 1928
pp. 110–111 | 1910
11 a.m. Newsies at Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking.
pp. 112–113 | 1909
Louis Blériot leaving Calais, France
pp. 114–G1 | 1908
Trapper boy, Turkey Knob Mine
G1–G8 | 1906
San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship 2,000 feet (600 meters) above San Francisco Bay, overlooking waterfront. Sunset over Golden Gate.
pp. 115–G8 | 1905
The Empire State Express (New York Central Railroad) passing through Washington Street, New York
pp. 116–117 | c. 1905
Pulling out of the clearcut
pp. 118–119 | c. 1905
On the springboards and in the undercut: a Washington lumberjack and his daughters, in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle, Washington
pp. 120–121 | c. 1904
A ride at Coney Island’s Luna Park
pp. 122–123 | October 16, 1903
Alexander Graham Bell kissing his wife, Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell, who is standing in a tetrahedral kite
pp. 124–125 | 1902
Wilbur Wright gliding down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill
pp. 126–127 | 1902
The Cliff House Hotel, San Francisco
pp. 128–129 | c. 1902
The Flatiron Building under construction, New York
pp. 130–135 | 1900s
Ellis Island immigrants
pp. 136–137 | 1900
Patrons enjoying a ballet at the outdoor theater of the Moulin Rouge, Paris
pp. 138–139 | 1900
Mulberry Street, Manhattan
pp. 140–141 | c. 1897
Portrait of an unidentified man
pp. 142–143 | 1896
The ‘Street of Gamblers’, Chinatown, San Francisco
pp. 144–145 | October 22, 1895
Train wreck at Montparnasse, Paris
pp. 146–147 | c. 1895
Man portraying Santa Claus in snowy scene
pp. 148–149 | 1890s
A group of Victorian tourists visit the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
pp. 150–151 | 1889
Construction of Tower Bridge, London
pp. 152–153 | June 1889
A tree pierces a house in the Johnstown flood calamity, Pennsylvania
pp. 154–155 | July 1888
The Eiffel Tower under construction, Paris
pp. 156–157 | 1887
A study in human locomotion
pp. 158–159 | 1887
A fisherman at home, Norfolk
pp. 160–161 | 1885
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
pp. 162–163 | 1885
A ‘Mrs Frampton’ combing her long hair with the help of a mirror
pp. 164–165 | 1882
Workers build the Statue of Liberty inside French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s workshop, Paris
pp. 166–167 | 1880s
The bell tower of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica under construction on the Montmartre Hill, Paris
pp. 168–169 | c. 1880s
Guides help a visitor to climb the Great Pyramid, Egypt
pp. 170–171 | c. 1880
Mugshots of inmates at Wormwood Scrubs prison, London
pp. 172–173 | 1877
British recruiting sergeants at Westminster, London
pp. 174–175 | 1875
A man sells mummies and other grave goods, Egypt
‘The soldier’s long term of service, and the restrictions upon his marriage, act as a direct encouragement to drunkenness and debauchery’
The British Army in 1868, Sir Charles E. Trevelyan
pp. 176–177 | c. 1870
A ‘female samurai’ or Onna-bugeisha ( , ‘female martial artist’)
pp. 178–179 | July 7, 1865
The hanging of the conspirators in the assassination of Lincoln
pp. 180–181 | 1865
A Turkestan Krai Jew
pp. 182–183 | c. 1865
A portrait of Virginia Oldoïni, Countess of Castiglione
pp. 184–185 | 1865
A group of top-hatted men in front of the construction of the British ship Tanjore
pp. 186–187 | 1864
Jesse James
pp. 188–189 | c. 1864
An unidentified African-American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters, Maryland
pp. 190–191 | 1864
A Union soldier guards a slave auction house on Whitehall Street, Atlanta
pp. 192–193 | 1863
Confederate prisoners at Seminary Ridge during the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
pp. 194–197 | c. 1858
Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars
pp. 198–199 | 1858
Alice Lidell, the ‘real’ Alice in Wonderland, aged six
pp. 200–201 | 1855
General Sir George de Lacy Evans, Commander of the British Army 2nd Division during the Crimean War
pp. 202–203 | c. 1850s
Californian miners have a group portrait
pp. 204–205 | 1846
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln, without a beard, aged thirty-seven
pp. 206–207 | 1844
Construction of Nelson‘s Column, Trafalgar Square, London
pp. 208–209 | 1839
The first photographic self--portrait
pp. 210–245
Building the time machine
pp. 246–247
Retronaut and Jordan J. Lloyd
pp. 248–249
Acknowledgements
pp. 250–254
Index
p. 257
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Step into the time machine
For many of us, the past was in black and white.
Logically, of course, we know that wasn’t the case, just as we know that the people we see walking very fast in films at the turn of the twentieth century didn’t actually walk as if speeded-up. But still, when we see an old black-and-white photograph, it tends to fit with the way we think the past was.
One reason for this is that we’ve all seen so many black-and-white pictures – online and also in the albums and shoeboxes of our family collections. We assume, perhaps subconsciously, that what we are looking at is the past, rather