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These two are now the right way around. Railway line guy, 1920s or 30s.

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Just as I was really getting into picking a selection, the topics ended. But I really think we've got a nice anthology, we get a bit more life out of all this old death.

Actually if you rest the mouse pointer over a picture to see the image name at the bottom of the window, for the most part you'll see the topic they're from.

[Watcher===]

Oo, forgot the rest.

Out of many many, the US Civil War and early car ones are also intriguing in colour. The hidef panorama of the ruined townscape especially - seen in actual res - would literally be the first time the human eye would have seen it properly in 150 years !!

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I love the old photos! The colors are so crisp.

Marilyn is the odd one in these groups.

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Well maybe not, as Miss. Monroe is also on these pages! And one thing we can say about the old film stock is, while only black and white, they already mastered resolution and grayscale information like bosses - even 160 years ago. Enough to survive for computers to resurrect men probably not even dust in their graves now.

I've some more pics here actually, in whatever order the computers see fit. The dead guy in the seat is Otis Redding, fresh from the plane crash. I always find Dock Of The Bay eerie now, the last track he recorded. The whistling at the end was only meant as a place marker for a fresh verse when he got back. Poor bastard.