Monday, 2 December 2019

Friday, 29 November 2019

Our Christmas tree again brightens up the coming dark December days ... :-)

Our Christmas tree is now installed to brighten up the coming December days: 


"The fashion hat 1915"

"The autumn hat 1915". The picture was published in a fashion magazine the same year. My colorization of a photo in the Swedish Digital Museum archive (VM17659:02).


Sunday, 17 November 2019

Portrait of Royal Swedish Air Force captain Paulus af Uhr (1927)

Bernhard Jernberg´s 1927 portrait of captain (later major general) Paulus af Uhr of the newly founded Royal Swedish Air Force - here processed and colorized by me - is in the Swedish Digital Museum archive (FMF.002492). Paulus af Uhr was also a prominent athlete. He participated in the Stockholm Olympic games in 1912 and held the Swedish high jump record, 188 cm, in 1914 - 1917.




Friday, 15 November 2019

The first motorcycle in the village

The first motorcycle in the village of Svinhult. Shopkeeper Edvin Karlsson showing his new Indian to his friends in the late 1910s (prob.). The original photo by August Christian Hultgren - here processed and colorized by me - is in the Swedish Digital Museum archive (OM.H.001828).


Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Friday, 8 November 2019

Poles for drying fishing nets in Viken

Poles for drying fishing nets in the village of Viken in Skåne