SAINT PAUL ICE PALACE (1886)

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The year is 1886. Saint Paul, Minnesota has hosted a Winter Carnival since 1885, making it the oldest such carnival in the United States. The city apparently got their inspiration from the winter carnival at Montreal. What’s unusual for an American carnival, is its theme is overtly pagan. The carnival is based on a “legend” of various gods and goddesses who preside over the festival and provide most of its themes. A highlight of the carnival, is the building of an Ice Palace. These palaces are not merely the size of a split-level igloo – but, are massive . . . as in MASSIVE. The palaces’ attention to detail is very impressive. Quite an achievement in ice design and construction. Pictured below is the main entrance into the ice palace of 1886.

Christmas is coming on Santa’s Reindeer! It’s not too late to look through your family photo collection. It is still possible for us to give you a turnaround time as quick as 12 hours. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

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POPULAR SCIENCE (CHRISTMAS 1922)

CURTISS CANDIES (CHRISTMAS 1933)

WESTERN AUTO STORES (CHRISTMAS 1958)

WINTER OF ’88 – CAMBRIDGE, NY (1888)

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The year is 1888. Now, don’t ask me why, but Americans are more fascinated by the moderate snows that hit New York City, than by the avalanche of white that blankets Bismark, Fairbanks, and Minsk. You can report 10 feet of the white stuff in Florida – and you’ll still take a back seat to the 18″ that blankets New York City. I don’t know why – but people get excited when the Big Apple is buried under 18″ of fluffy stuff. I grew up in North Jersey at a time when New York City was the center of the universe. When it comes to snowstorms – Gotham is still Rome in the new world.

Christmas is coming on like eight tiny reindeer! It’s time to look through your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

WOODSTOCK, VERMONT AT NIGHT (1939)

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The year is 1939. To help celebrate a American Photo Colorizing Christmas, here is one of the best-known photographs of one of my favorite photographers, Marion Post Wolcott. Marion was a young woman who took photos for the Farm Security Administration during the 1930s and ’40s. She spent some time in the village of Woodstock, Vermont during the winter of 1939/1940, photographing the life and people of this small New England town.

Today, Woodstock is a popular snow skiing area. This was one of my earlier colorized photos, and now, here we are 11 Christmases later, colorizing historical photos for magazines, major museums, authors, and families like yours. It’s been as wild and unpredictable as a Nantucket sleigh ride.

Christmas is coming on like eight tiny reindeer and St. Nicholas, too. It’s time to look through your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

But, WAIT! . . . There’s a whole bunch MORE!!

IF THAT ISN’T ENOUGH (and it probably isn’t) HERE’S MY FAMILY CHRISTMAS IN 1954 ~ David

ONE-GIRL OPEN SLED (1950)

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The year is 1950. The girl on the sled is then-aspiring actress, Janice Rule. She went on to appear in films, such as “Bell, Book and Candle”, alongside James Stewart and Kim Novak – and on Broadway. She was married to actor Ben Gazzara, and eventually left acting for a career as a psychoanalyst. But, here in the winter of 1950-51, she is as a fresh-faced 19 year-old girl from Norwood, Ohio.

Christmas is coming on like Gangbusters. It’s time to look through 8888888your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

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CAPITOL SNOWBALL FIGHT (1925)

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The year is 1925. One of my favorite snow scenes, here some Senate pages have a wild snowball fight across from the Capitol dome. I chose to bathe the image in the digital equivalent of a blue wash, to help capture the wintery mood. Well, it has me so convinced, I think it’s time burn a few logs in the fireplace.

Christmas is coming on like Santa’s reindeer. It’s time to look through your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. Turn around time is about 48 hours, so contact us today! This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

CHRISTMAS AT THE COTTON CLUB (1936)

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The year is 1936. The Cotton Club was the night spot in New York City’s Harlem, owned by gangster, Owney Madden, which eventually moved to the Broadway Theatre district. Though, a restricted club (whites only) – the Cotton Club presented the greatest black entertainers of the 1920s and 1930s, like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Nat King Cole. Prominent in the photo are some of New York City’s ever-present Yellow Cabs.

As you can see from the black and white photo, not only did I colorize the image – but, I transformed the scene into Christmastime in the City. As a rule, I don’t doctor photos beyond colorizing them, however, this scene just called out for snow. There’s no better time to present the Cotton Club in a snowstorm – than at Christmastime. Merry Christmas to all from American Photo Colorizing.com!

FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS DANCING PLEASURE . . .

MACY’S CHRISTMAS WINDOW (1870)

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The year is 1870. This is the year Macy’s began creating festive Christmas window displays. They also launched another department store first in 1870 – the in-store Santa Claus. Whether he was the same Macy’s Kris Kringle who appeared in “Miracle On 34th Street” seventy-seven years later, is open to speculation. H.R. Macy was a master of marketing. Starting with a small dry goods store in Massachusetts, he moved his location to Manhattan, and today Macy’s is to America – what Mom, Apple Pie, and the Fourth of July are to . . . America. Huh. That sounded so much more profound in my head.

Christmas is coming on like Gangbusters. It’s time to look through your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

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RONALD REAGAN FOR CHESTERFIELD CIGARETTES (CHRISTMAS 1952)

LIFE MAGAZINE ISSUE (Christmas 1926)

CAMPBELL’S SOUP (CHRISTMAS 1948)

INDEPENDENCE SQUARE (1840)

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The year is 1840. We’re traveling back to the very beginning of photography in America. Here we find ourselves at the entrance to Independence Square in Philadelphia. First, we have the original daguerreotype photo of the scene, followed by our colorized creation. It’s a very startling experience to look back in time more than 170 years – and see everything in full color, much as it looked in the winter of 1840. We can do the same for your museum or family photos. Come visit our website today.

Christmas will sneak up on you before you know it. It isn’t too early to start looking through your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

SINGING BELL RINGER (CHRISTMAS 2014)

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It’s “Throw It Back Thursday” here at the American Photo Colorizing Blog. Last year about this time, we gave you an added extra – and I thought it would be cool to revisit this special blog post. Along with our usual Before & After Colorized Photo – we have a video of a special person. He’s the kind of guy who just seems to spread a whole lot of joy wherever he goes.

His name is Jonathan, and he’s a singing bell ringer for the Salvation Army. We found Jonathan set up in front of the Vons Supermarket at Victoria and Telegraph in Ventura, California. From across the parking lot drifted this wonderful pop Christmas singing. Turned out, it came from Jonathan, a 25 year-old fellow from Santa Paula. We loved his renditions so much, we wanted to share them with you. If you live anywhere in the Ventura County area, come let Jonathan entertain you, and drop something in his kettle to help the less fortunate. Now, here’s Jonathan The Singing Bell Ringer. Cheers!

And now, for the photo colorizing fans among you – which seems to be just about everybody – here are some color corrected & colorized 1960s slides of Plymouth Massachusetts. Plymouth was home to a group of Christian Separatists from England, known as the Pilgrims – and the Wampanoags, who, under Chief Massasoit, befriended them, ensuring their survival in the New World. The original homes of such notable Pilgrims as Miles Standish, William Brewster, John Alden & Priscilla Mullins Alden still stand today, across Plymouth Harbor, in the village of Duxbury – as does the home of guitarist Joe Perry of Aerosmith, though to the best of my knowledge he wasn’t a Pilgrim. Duxbury was also home to yours truly, for three of my “wonder years”. Southern Massachusetts is brimming with early-American History . . . and features some of the best beaches on the East Coast – including Cape Cod. I do recommend you wait until summer to go water skiing.

MAYFLOWER 2 AT PLYMOUTH

PLIMOUTH PLANTATION

Christmas will sneak up on you before you know it. It isn’t too early to start looking through your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

MACY’S PARADE – BIG FISH (1927)

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The year is 1927. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is in full-swing, as it was just a few days ago. In recent years, the parade balloons have gone corporate – with the mascots of Big Business. When many of us were kids, Saturday morning cartoon characters were the rage. But, here in the Roaring ’20s – most of the balloons featured characters that were unique to the parade – much like California’s Tournament of Roses Parade. At American Photo Colorizing, a parade just isn’t the same in black & white. So, we’ve given it our special colorizing touch – and Big Fish (no relation to Big Bird) looks much friendlier in full-color. Remember…OUR world isn’t black & white…neither was Big Fish’s”.

Christmas will sneak up on you before you know it. It isn’t too early to start looking through your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”