Colorized from this Shorpy original. Lots of fun; this one is interesting on multiple levels, a painting within a painting. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. View full size.

I saw this photo on your site a while back. I like the detail of the image, so when I started messing around with an image editor, I decided I would like to try to color it. I looked up colored postcards of Luna Park, only to discover that this was Dreamland Amusement Park and it had burned to the ground 7 years after it was opened. Its design and decor was also panned in the press as being mostly white and drab, so I held back adding too much color to the buildings, but brightened it up as much as I could. Even the postcards show most everything is white. View full size.

Colorized from a Shorpy original.
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Colorized from a Shorpy original.

I went off my usual tack with this one, consciously moving towards a more stylised piece. Existing colourisations give her a peach coloured sash and a green/brown background, which the black and white tones certainly suggest. This one was really an exercise in restraint with tonal variation on the skin in particular, and experiment with iridescent colours on the silk sash; I thought a royal purple background would tie everything together and reference the given title appropriately. View full size.

Colorized from a Shorpy original.
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DeLeon Springs, Florida. Colorized from this Shorpy Original. View full size.

Colorized from a Shorpy original.

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The original is here. At about the nine hour mark, I figured I was almost done. At about the twenty-five hour mark, I finally was. No historical research at all went into choosing the colors for this image. Rather, if I thought a choice was believable, it was in. View full size.

Colorized from a Shorpy original.

The Lanier Hotel & Fuerst Bros. Restaurant, 15 Bowery NYC
Colourisation from a black and white photo
Tuesday, July 5th, 1921, New York, United States of America, by George Grantham Bain's Bain News Service

Proprietors Alex and Sigmund Fuerst stand outside their hotel and associated restaurant in what is now modern day Chinatown in New York City, opposite the old Bowery Theatre. The Fuerst family, consisting of five brothers, owned several restaurants along the popular theatrical strip along the Bowery, including the now demolished address at 15 Bowery, 109 Bowery and 221 Bowery, which has very similar architectural detailing to the buildings on 15 Bowery.

Original here. 1899 Tracy, Minnesota. View full size.

Colorized from a Shorpy original. I've seen two different versions of the American Railway Express logo; one in green with red lettering, and the red diamond version here, a more obvious precursor to the Railway Express Agency which would be incorporated in 1929. Apologies if I have any of the uniform colours wrong. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. View full size.

From a Shorpy original; colorized by Michael Catanachapodaca, 2012. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. View full size.