Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: A remarkable colorized photograph

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Blog Mirror: A remarkable colorized photograph

Generally I'm iffy about colorization of black and white photographs and I used to really dislike the colorization of black and white film, but the technology has remarkably improved in recent years, as the amazing movie They Shall Not Grow Old demonstrates. At any rate, every now and then there's a really remarkable example of it. Here's one such example on the Reddit 100 Years Ago subreddit.

[September 16, 1920] Wall Street bombing - colorized

I've seen this photograph before, but never noticed many of the details, such as the fireman dealing with his footgear or the Dalmatian dog. Truly remarkable.

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Lex Anteinternet?

This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

We hope you'll feel moved to comment as well. While we moderate every comment, so as to weed out Spam, we greatly appreciate the comments where they are offered, and hope to see more.

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