Taken in late 50s or early 60s at the Ilion, New York, fire station. View full size.

Late 1940s, downtown Ilion, NY. The girl in the picture is my sister Ruth. The Remington gun factory with crossover tunnels is down the street. View full size.

Here's another photo that I just had to see in color. I believe the original was posted around Nov. 26 (and I've been working on it ever since...or so it seems). I intentionally made the colors bright, vivid and perhaps a bit outlandish but I wanted to make the theatre look like a fun and happy place. There was a lot of detail and I think (I hope) I got most of it. I'm still trying to figure out Photoshop Elements 9 and I learned a lot doing this but still have much more to figure out. View full size.

Colorized form Shorpy files. View full size.

Indian: Porcupine. From Harris & Ewing Glass Negative, Library of Congress, Published between 1905 and 1945. View full size.

Just a nice photo of a pretty girl and a brand new Ford Victoria. The blue color was found in a Ford Motor Company brochure: Glacier Blue with Sungate Ivory Top. It's amazing how color adds a 3D feeling to black & white photos. View full size.

I couldn't resist. View full size.

This is a colorized version of the Shorpy image posted 2-15-08. Olga and her giant ice cream cone called to me for some reason. But she does need to see a dentist. View full size.

A colorized version of "here. View full size

Taken off of Shorpy and colorized by me. November 1938. "Liquor store signs" in Omaha, Nebraska. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

This colorized image shows Mary Texanna Loomis, the first woman in the U.S. to run a radio school, operating her radio station in 1921. Her school, the Loomis Radio College, operated in Washington, D.C., in the 1920's and 1930's. She is seated at an early receiver that uses a panel mounted crystal detector. The knife switches to the right are probably antenna selectors. Next to that is an antenna tuner called a "loose coupler", which is connected to a tube receiver out of view on the right.

I optimized the image in Photoshop and colorized it using AKVIS Coloriage software. The original black and white photo is in the Library of Congress collection and can be seen at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97504677/. View full size.

"Mrs. Newton D. Baker." Elizabeth Leopold Baker, wife of the Secretary of War, strikes a vixenish pose. Harris & Ewing glass negative, 1917. View full size.

A colorized version of "Evelyn Nesbit, age 16, brought to the studio by Stanford White." New York circa 1901. View full size.

Hollywood, 1953. "Actress Marilyn Monroe, playfully elegant at home." 35mm negative by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Life photo archive. View full size.

This is a photo I found on this site and colorized. View full size