Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2011

Colour Photography From Before 1950

Who knew the world wasn't actually in black and white before 1945? Check out these beautiful examples of early color photography from as early as the 1930s.

I did read from somewhere else that before colour photography was inverted, photographer need to use multiple lens filter in order to get colour photos.

1915: Austro-Hungarian POWs In Russia - By Prokudin-Gorskii. 

1943: Rosie The Riveter - A worker operates a hand drill in Tennessee to apply rivets to an A-31 Vengeance dive bomber. By Alfred T. Palmer. 

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Iconic Photos Of Pearl Harbor Attack

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here are some stunning images of the event that brought the United States into World War II. 

(AP / File Photo)

(AP / File Photo)

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Rare Photos Of WW2 In Real Colour

Usually, not all but most of engineer don't take much interest in history. They treat history, during college or high school, as a boring-lame-easy-subject. Me, in the other hand, quiet passionate with history. 

These are some rare color photos of World War II. Take a look!



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