ClicksyPicsWiggle animations and anything old timey!

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Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe was appointed Chief Aeronaut of the Union Army Balloon Corps in 1861 by Abe Lincoln.  The year after the above photo was taken, Thaddeus resigned because of disputes over his operations and pay.

Following his stint in the war, he spent time on his inventions, creating an ice making machine and a water gas process which produced hydrogen gas from charcoal and steam.  His patents and inventions made him a millionaire.  In 1887 he moved to L.A. building a 24,000 square foot mansion, and opening several ice making plants and even a bank.  In 1891 he opened a railroad company which was initially successful but became costly and he lost the company.  He died at 81 having lost his fortunes, living in his daughter’s home in Pasadena.  Click to read more about him at wikipedia.

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See the original at the Library of Congress here.

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Selecting colors is always a challenge.  I searched, but finding photos of 1920s Roman musicians in color was not an easy task.  I looked at this picture and I saw green and yellow, then thought no, then they’d be leprechauns.  So I get to working on it and try blue and yellow, ask my husband, and he says, “Make them green!”  And he was right, right down to their gold belt buckles, these men are leprechauns.  I’m pretty sure when I die I will be assailed by all these people I’ve colorized telling me they had brown eyes, and not blue, or their costumes were red.

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Hopefully, “it” isn’t syphilis. Another image I’ve colorized, there was a series of these images created in the 20′s and 30′s, categorized in the LOC as “Glamour photographs”.

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The most complicated colorized image I’ve so far tried.  I loved the image, but it was badly warped, so it took some doing.  The little boy on the left was a bit of an Easter egg, I didn’t see him until I was about 20 minutes into building the animation.  Maybe my favorite image to date…

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View the original image from the Library of Congress here.

To find out how these are created, go here.  Get page updates on Facebook here.

View the original image from the Library of Congress here.

To find out how these are created, go here.  Get page updates on Facebook here.

View the original image from the Library of Congress here.

To find out how these are created, go here.  Get page updates on Facebook here.