The delight of speed in the summer of 1936 in Helsinki. The speedboat is an Ares A-55. Photographer Pietinen´s image - here shown with my colorization - is in the Finnish Board of Antiquities archive on Finna.fi.
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Monday, 9 December 2019
Napoli Tarantella
Napoli Tarantella. My colorization of Giorgio Sommer´s (1834 - 1914) photo from ca. 1870. The original is in the Metropolitan Museum archive.
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.
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