Please Like the video and subscribe to channel as it supports me in this Colorization journey. Here is the Part two of this video. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aoN4lLaKnKjKk5s.html

@TheGrouch2000

3 ай бұрын

So where are the ladies in the thumbnail? No subscribe from me.

@Melchersson

3 ай бұрын

General Sherman was a Freemason?

@TheOtherBill

3 ай бұрын

Clickbait title. Once they're modified by touching them up and adding false color they are no longer "real".

@Lukasz-Lach

3 ай бұрын

The subtitles are badly done. Shame!!!

@user-bo8eq7ki5w

2 ай бұрын

If I were an American, I would cry out of love for my ancestors. An old life that reveals so much to contemporaries.........................

Who else is fed up from videos teasing with search images which they don't show in the video?

@MayimHastings

9 күн бұрын

I agree, but this one was obvious. Their clothing was from the Great Depression!

This really is fantastic. It brings life to the past and shows us how it was different, and how it was the same.

Good job on the colorization of these historical photos. My only criticism is that the text descriptions under the photos don't always fit the screen, so a lot of the text descriptions were cut-off.

@ElPulsodelMundo

3 ай бұрын

Yes, really not very convenient, and I was just wondering about this girl, who is it and where is it?

@davidfrisken1617

10 күн бұрын

It seems a lot of the photos were stolen and not the work of this channel

I like how this video of "1860s USA" shows so many photos from outside the USA.

@kathrynsmith3417

3 ай бұрын

& The Two Girls featured in this thumbnail & others from this same channel, never appear in the photos shown in video.

@TheOtherBill

3 ай бұрын

@@kathrynsmith3417 Anything for clicks!

@ElPulsodelMundo

3 ай бұрын

Yes, you're right, but I want something specific and point in the right direction.

@Dadsezso

3 ай бұрын

@@kathrynsmith3417That is because they're AI generated.

Awesome work! Very enjoyable looking at the USA and various world photos taken so long ago.

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Wonderful photos. Exceptional colorization. (I'm subscribed)

@chromawhisperer

4 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

At 1:26 there is the photo of Edward Sheriff Curtis. He was born in 1868 and is known for his turn-of-the-century photography of American Indians.

@rainerrain9689

3 ай бұрын

Thanks

I inherited a five generation collection of the photographic works of my family dating back to the 1850's. I have attempted to hand tint a handful of the many tens of thousands of photos that I have. Until now I have always thought hand tinting was a complete waste of time and accomplished very little esthetically. The first photographer in my family went to France to study under the inventor of the art and then came back circa 1852 to set up a shop in Massachusetts. He was commissioned an officer in the volunteers and took hundreds of battlefield photos that are as yet unpublished. I had always intended to simply leave them in my will to the Smithsonian assuming they would have them. After viewing this video I'm now contemplating having this done with a few hundred of those and turning them into a book though many are too graphic for colorization. Sherman was right, war is hell. The scenes are all hellish in nature, the stuff nightmares are made of. But I have many many historic photos taken before and since that I might do something like this with. I have never been so impressed by an attempts at colorizing old black and white photos. This is by far the best example of the art I have ever witnessed. I have no idea by what processes this was accomplished but I would say this borders on miraculous in quality. Many of these look like they were taken yesterday with the most advanced digital cameras. I have seen the originals of several of these and blown away by the degree to which images have been cleaned up, clarified and how authentic the colors look. Before this everything I have ever seen colorized looked like they were tinted with water colors done by amateurs. I have photos as mentioned above taken on battlefields including action and aftermath. Mostly aftermath. I have street scenes and celebrities. My grandfather who was an amateur photographer took hundreds of WWI photos. I have a series of photos documenting the construction of the Cape Cod Canal and the three bridges over it. I have the only photos of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Herman Melville taken sitting together at dinner at my great, great, great grandmother's boarding house in New Bedford Mass in the 1880's. Clemens came to visit periodically and Melville frequently as they both liked her cooking, especially Melville won once told her that she comes back to New Bedford just for her cooking but prefers New York for everything else. I have photos of Samuel Clemens in drag taken at my great, great, great grandfather's studio. Imagine him wearing a pinafore holding a parasol in one hand and cigar in the other. He was drunk at the time and later asked my great, great, great grandfather to destroy the photos but instead they were preserved. I have photos of the 1918 pandemic taken by my grandmother who was a nurse and helped take care of hundreds of patients in a tent city of the infected that September. There's of a sign reminding people to wear their masks, wash their hands frequently and to social distance. Her diary expressed her frustrations at not being able to convince people of the need to so those things hence all the patients. Another photo shows the dead bodies wrapped in shrouds stacked in the back of wagons like cordwood and yet another photo of work men unloading them into a mass grave. They didn't have modern morgues like today. Some communities burned the bodies but hers thought doing so would cause the smoke to carry the disease spreading it more. I have photographs of celebrities that went to high school with my Dad in Massachusetts before they were famous. All of the above are unpublished and all in B&W. I just wish I could afford to have this done with all of them. It would bring the past back to light in a way that no words can.

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your generous words. Your words carry emotions and value. Also, you should publish them even in black and white. People like me would love to colorize them besides the fact that original black and white photos are still worthy.

@nunyabiznez6381

3 ай бұрын

@@chromawhisperer Thank you. Do you do this commercially? Or is this something you only do for your videos?

@steamboat75043

3 ай бұрын

i hope some day your photos of the 1918 pandemic are posted along with diary entries. Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it. While it would you put you in the middle of the controversy, or might, or might draw unwanted attention, on the other hand its message would be very powerful and help people understand our changing world. Thank you for sharing your comments and history.

@saturnchildwinterborn7897

3 ай бұрын

IMO, a photo book along the lines of any of those topics would be very interesting, whether black and white or colourised. The Civil War was among the first to be documented with photographs. More study of the Spanish flu and it's aftermath could benefit us all. Even though the idea of a book of battlefield photos, or row upon row of Spanish flu patients might seem sobering, there was a reason why those pictures were taken. To inform and warn, and educate others. 'The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of, ' would be an excellent title for such a book.

@steamboat75043

3 ай бұрын

@@saturnchildwinterborn7897 I find the people looking at the halcyon days of their youth, or the past, don't really understand what day to day life was about. Pictures of 'the bottom of the barrel' of food would be a good one. Life without modern time saving devices. Life without modern medicine. I would have been dead years ago without it. And then there is the whole civil rights movement and the echoes of the past that we are still dealing with. I like the new series which are more historically accurate like 'hell on wheels' about building the transcontinental railroad. I have worked with track hammers and driving stakes at a railroad museum. How people did it for hours on end and the wear and tear on the body. Or black lung disease from being a miner. The series 'Chernobyl' was another one showing the tragedy and cost and how the miners who went in to stop the core from burning its way down all died from radiation poisoning as well as others.... Mostly the good old days - weren't. Times were simpler but far from better.

Enchanting. Thank you 🙂

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

These have to be the best colorizations I’ve ever seen. Well done!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Thanks you. Please check other videos as well on our channel. You would love them.

The added colors make the pictures almost life like. Beautiful. Thank you.

@chromawhisperer

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@dukeon

2 ай бұрын

The B&W are much preferable to these poorly tinted/colored versions. They look flat and cartoonish.

So the thumbnail was a lie

@solapowsj25

2 ай бұрын

Oh! My... the twins?

@zyourzgrandzmaz

2 ай бұрын

Not twins, two separate girls from different countries. 1 is french 1 is German. Its from after the war ended and they were homeless. Showing beautiful people thrown to the gutters cus of war.

@doktorkoka

2 ай бұрын

​@@zyourzgrandzmaznice imagination my man

@marktrail8624

Ай бұрын

I could tell by the picture that it was clickbait. They looked to clear and contemporary looking for the time period. Probably SI generated of course.

@AssarKask-kp6uo

29 күн бұрын

Yes a goddamn lie😢

FANTASTIC!!!!!

Super Beautiful Photo!! Thank You!! VB

Some of these pictures look incredibly real! Amazing!

Wonderful!

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Too cool. Awesome.

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Great editing work and fantastic music! New light to an old subject.

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

What a great video!

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

You are so kind

Looking at these pictures from back then, make you feel like you're in the wrong period of time. Keep it up with more old pictures

beautifully rendered images - bravo!

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Superb work - thank you

@chromawhisperer

Ай бұрын

mine pleasure. please do watch other similar videos on my channel.

I could watch these all day.

Priceless stuff.

This is excellent!! Thanks!

@chromawhisperer

Ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Great photos! Thank you!

Wonderful. Thank you

@chromawhisperer

Ай бұрын

Please Visit Channel and watch similar videos about civil war photos.

Amazing pics !

@chromawhisperer

2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Amazing photos!

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! Please Like and Subscribe the channel.

Edward Sheriff Curtis died in the 50s, so he saw the Civil War and both World Wars 😮

@mrrrufus

3 ай бұрын

I recently looked this up. The video is misleading. E S Curtis was born in 1868 three years after the Civil War. The self portrait featured is actually dated 1889.

@1337fraggzb00N

3 ай бұрын

@@mrrrufus dang, you're right.

@mrrrufus

3 ай бұрын

Only because I looked it up! 😊

@1337fraggzb00N

3 ай бұрын

@@mrrrufus I also looked it up... but wrong 😂

@allwyndsouza5770

3 ай бұрын

He lived through the Civil War and witnessed both the great Wars

I used to think photos shouldn't be colorized, but it certainly makes an impact on how these grey lifeless black & white photos change with color! Suddenly, they look like everyday people. Although, too many uniforms on very young men!

Amazing ❤❤❤❤❤

Some of the "old town" photographs are fascinating. It would be really interesting to see today's view taken from the same spot.

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

I appreciate your interest. But that would be beyond from the scope of this channel. However will try to do that for you.

@Teapot-Dave

3 ай бұрын

@@chromawhisperer Maybe some of your viewers from those places might be able to help out?

@glennrishton5679

3 ай бұрын

If your interests are in the Civil War and battlefields William Frasanito did several books, Gettysburg, Antietam then the latter campaigns where he determined where old battlefield photos were taken, what was visible and a modern, 1970s1980s, photo from the same camera position.

@Teapot-Dave

3 ай бұрын

@@glennrishton5679 Thank you, that sounds really interesting.

Edward Sherriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 - October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people] Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis traveled the United States to document and record the dwindling ways of life of various native tribes through photographs and audio recordings. Wiki

That guitar picking for the first 3 minutes is awesome 😎

This is amazing!

The swallow-tail flag behind Custer has 35 stars in the canton. The 35th was added when a star for West Virginia was added July 4, 1863 (West Virginia seceded from Virginia).

@rickeargle

3 ай бұрын

Thats the story and they are sticking to it.. Lincoln needed electoral college votes, so forget the U.S. constitution- so Union troops backed a group claiming they where rightfull gov of Virginia allowing the formation of the new state of West Va. A powder mine/ factory in the new West Virginia would employee 2200 men (mostly soldiers) and supply 1/3 of the gun powder for the confederate army/navy for the next two years..No new West Virginians --white/back/free/poor/rich/male/female pointed out to the Feds what was being producted-shipped under tell noses....Seeing they might need more votes Nevada became a state despite not having enfu population to qualify as a state --its still something like 90+% federal land..

Nice voice, articulate, and scholarly. Well done!

@chromawhisperer

Ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

I love this, it really does bring the past to life. I just wish the text wasn't cut off. 😎 I am curious as to what software was used, I am guessing Adobe, but I don't have that, too expensive lol?

@renatoferreira4939

3 ай бұрын

Gimp, and totaly free.

Really excellent colorizations. Thank you. The merkins were a bit of a hoot. Godfrey Weitzel was born in Germany, a brilliant student, and perhaps the youngest enrollee in West Point Military Academy at the age of 14 (having lied about his age). A superior engineer, when promoted, he took charge of an all-black Army Corps, putting him on the death list of the Southern Government.

@chromawhisperer

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for compliments. Please like and subscribe. Also, your knowledge of history is great.

Fascinating.

The photo of the slave children is totally bizarre. Oh for the back story.

@revjaybird2

3 ай бұрын

A cut and paste: "Abolitionist portrait of the propagandized emancipated enslaved children, Isaac White and Rosina Downs, standing, arm-in-arm. Isaac has brown skin, and wears a shirt jacket, pants, and broad tie. He has his left hand tucked into his shirt jacket. Rosina has fair skin, and wears an off-the-shoulder, calf-length dress, cinched at the waist, and with stripe details on the neckline and skirt. She also wears pantaloons. Freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the children toured through the North with other emancipated enslaved people, and Colonel George H. Hanks, to raise funds for the emancipated enslaved schools of Louisiana established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen." The photographer was M. H. Kimball. The children are: Isaac and Rosa, emancipated slave children, from the free schools of Louisiana. I cannot post links, so hopefully this will start you in the right direction to find more info.

Wow! This is the best example of colorization I've ever seen! Bravo !

@jamesdellaneve9005

3 ай бұрын

I agree

@dukeon

2 ай бұрын

I don’t. It’s abysmal compared to top colorizations out there.

Great collection of colorized history photos. It would be good if you could run some public domain music in the background such as period songs that were being played and sung in both North and South at the time.

@KB-ke3fi

10 күн бұрын

I have that collection. It wasn't that entirely different.

Thanks

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Welcome. Please like the video and subscribe the channel. Also have a look on other amazing videos as well on our channel.

Thank you from SE England, UK.

Wonderful trip through time! Thanks so much, I'm now subscribed (and would recommend using word wrap for the text, which was often off-screen.)

@chromawhisperer

2 ай бұрын

Thanks. I fixed that. Please check latest video on channel.

Clickbait thumbnail 👎👎👎

@donnawalker7085

16 күн бұрын

Yep, but the video has merit.

That was Awsome

Nice picture s love it Patricia curry Danville VA ❤❤

So much better than the blurred, ghostly black and white images from the cameras of that day. Now these people look like they could be my next door neighbors in 2024!

Like the music and the colors. Sometimes I watch those shows where people see color for the first time ,with special glasses, and they always cry.

Very clear photos, great colour

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers! Please Subscribe and Share.

someone had to clean the horse manure off the streets or the flys would be annoying let alone the smell .

@chuckbrotton2449

Ай бұрын

In the Civil War era, circa 1860s, that wasn't as big a problem as there was a market for it as fertilizer in surrounding farm areas. There were dudes w/ shovels & wheelbarrows looking to makexa living. As the 19th century drew to an end, 1890s & on, it was much more of a problem, once nitrate fertilizers became standard and farming was less likely to be happening anywhere near city centers

Nice!

Charleston NC had Romanesque structures with columns! Wow!!

@mikebowden4244

2 ай бұрын

It is Charleston South Carolina.

Not a fan of the jazzy background music, watching the video with audio muted adds more credence to the photos imo.

Willie Nelson has to be Pistol Pete's doppleganger 🧐

@KB-ke3fi

10 күн бұрын

Except Willie has a completely different view of all of it.

Excelente las fotografías y el fondo musical, saludos 🇦🇷

I hope history doesn't repeat the civil war

@richardletaw4068

3 ай бұрын

War is something everyone should fervently wish not happen anywhere, or to anyone. Sadly, there are those in positions of power who feel it is a perfectly acceptable use of that power. Winston Churchill said, “There are worse things than war,” and he was right: slavery and subjugation, among others. But every alternative must be explored before resorting to the horror of war.

@KB-ke3fi

10 күн бұрын

We've been in one for 3.7 years...courtesy of the Biden administration.

Loved the show. Question: What program/process did you use to colorize?

You do a beautiful job with these.

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Thanks. Please do like and subscribe if you have not done yet.

Great job at colorization _and_ selection of photographs. @ 8:38, for a second I thought I was looking at Willie Nelson. 😄 I'm surprised to see that some men were clean-shaven in that period of time. Most of them weren't.

@calvarez3106

3 ай бұрын

Photographs were a big deal then. You looked your best and wore your best clothes for them. No doubt these fellows didn't look as well-groomed and clothed day to day.

How awesome would be to be able to go back and "visit" the past, until we can do that this is the closest we will get. Great job and thank you for sharing.

@chromawhisperer

2 ай бұрын

So true!

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!🤠😳

The colorization was great on these photos.

The photos are well chosen, and the colorization is exceptional. The portrait of Edward Sheriff Curtis at 1:30 makes it personal: He strongly resembles my son-in-law, who happens to be a Civil War reenactor.

@JesusMagicPanties

3 ай бұрын

Indeed so. The colours make this non existing world disturbingly close and realistic. Good job.

@alanoneill3065

3 ай бұрын

@@JesusMagicPanties Edward Sherriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 - October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people. Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis traveled the United States to document and record the dwindling ways of life of various native tribes through photographs and audio recordings.

@JesusMagicPanties

3 ай бұрын

@@alanoneill3065 Thank you. Most of the folks captured must have seen the camera both the first and last time in their lives... Cheers from Poland.

@E-s.thoughts

3 ай бұрын

Nice to know ... there's only one little thing; Edward S. Curtis was born only 3 years after the end of the Civil War.

@ElPulsodelMundo

3 ай бұрын

Are those pictures of Curtis?

Excelentes imagenes 👌🏻👍🏻

Great video! The color added, just make the pictures look so recent! The gentlemen at 1:27, for example, looks like he was in the 1960's instead! So how are the photos colorized?Thank you, and keep more videos like this one coming.

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for that!

@timotaio69

3 ай бұрын

@@chromawhisperer you’re welcome!

Joel McHale could play Gen. Sherman in any upcoming Civil War flick. Must be the hair!

wow!

Sheriff Edward Curtis looks like he is from 2024

I love the photos, but also that jazz. Who is that playing the piano? Thanks!

@chromawhisperer

3 ай бұрын

Please check description. Every video has list of music and a direct link to music.

You can imagine the smell on streets where hundreds of horses are dropping dung every day. Of course few people bathed regularly until the later 1800's so smells in life were normal, generally. They'd think it odd of people today bathing every day and always wearing clean clothes.

@saturnchildwinterborn7897

3 ай бұрын

During peaceful times, the manure was collected and used as fertilizer. In wartime, The Nitre Beds, were large rectangles of rotted manure and straw, moistened weekly with urine, “dung water,” and liquid from privies, cesspools and drains, and turned over regularly, according to accounts at the time. The process was designed to yield saltpeter, an ingredient of gunpowder, which was desperately needed during the Civil War.

Great clarity. Really brings those times to life. Question: The Nashville Railroad for example....how do you know from a black and white photo that a rail car was not only blue, but two shades of blue?

Frank Eaton (Pistol Pete) is the official mascot of Oklahoma State University.

Way friggin cool .

Excellent work. It makes them all so much more relatable. The British veteran at around 4:10. That is the coolest top hat I have ever seen. There is wearing your heart on your sleeve, this guy is wearing his life story on his head. 7:50 - Sickening pic. Looks like they were still using the Irish. In recent times that has been swept under the rug.

Fantastic! You make History come Alive like never before! Everyone needs to see this, to recognize our common humanity, to grow in empathy and understanding, learning to love each other as the Divine intended.

1:44 the Iron works has a huge display hanging on the front of their building, it's crazy how big that thing is.

8:48 is actually a young (ish) Willie Nelson.

Exceptional work but disappointed that some descriptions were cut off

It must have been an amazing time to live there. Imagine having a time machine and going to spend some time there.

What are you using, website and/or company) for the colorization of the photos? I've been colorizing very old family photos. It's amazing to see them come to life in my time. Very good work your are doing. I am not here to dispute claims made by others although accuracy is very important from a historical and personal perspective.

@dukeon

2 ай бұрын

I think he’s just collecting some of these from other sources. I see watermarks on some of them, and the style varies too much. Probably just someone shoveling out other people’s work to get hits on their channel. OP if I’m wrong, tell me!

@DennisCambly

Ай бұрын

@@dukeon You are probably right. AI depends on the human coding the software. There are so many websites offering basically the same colorization of older color and black and white photos I though the website being used would be mentioned.

Great photos and colorization, but I was hoping for more Civli War photos.

The photo of Charles Dickens was by far the best quality in the whole lot. Whoever took it had a very clean camera and clean film. Correct focus and correct exposure. Most digital cameras today couldn’t take a photo that sharp.

@Poisson4147

2 ай бұрын

True that! Film's limited only by the resolution of its emulsion but digital is trapped by how many pixels it has.

Wait for 5 years more, and you will get a chance to update the collection.

the old veteran with the top hat is a Briton, the photo was taken in England. Nothing to do with "U.S. civilian war."

Music from the actual civil war era would have been more appropriate

Gone with the wind 😮

The color is good, but so many of the photos were fuzzy or slightly out of focus. Too bad they couldn't sharpen them up a bit. Still, it is a nice connection.

I find it hilarious that the vendor of those "intimate wigs" chose that particular cut for his beard.

To me it is comforting my Great Grandfather lost his arm correcting this black mark on American History I would have fought alongside him!!

@Yeolita

2 ай бұрын

Wow, I salute him and you! Such bravery and sacrifice is what made progress happened! THANKS a million Great-Grandad🏆🎖👏✌

Clickbait thumbnail. Shame 👎🏼

@nelsonbergman7706

29 күн бұрын

Unfortunately Clickbait is common on KZread.

@jrm2383

29 күн бұрын

It’s the 1860s, what did you expect, pin up girls?

@aural_supremacy

25 күн бұрын

Yeah reading is so 21st century

@aural_supremacy

25 күн бұрын

@@nelsonbergman7706yeah reading the titles is so last century

@DreamDosage

15 күн бұрын

What’d you think it was gonna be… it’s Civil War photos

Edward Sheriff Curtis was coolest cat of the whole 1800’s

Some of these photos can eerily look current.

Fascinating 🤔 👍🏾🤎

Enjoyed greatly, except that the captions were cut off on the L and R margins on iPad.

I can see A.I. artifacts in some of the images, so I'm guessing most of them are colorized by A.I.? Brilliant idea actually, must speed up the process astronomically. Some of the images are stunningly well done, while others seem weak, as though there wasn't enough there for the A.I. engine to get a good reading of it. A.I. being what it is however, with repeated use it learns and gets better. If you could get access at museums, of clothing, fabrics, leathers, etc. from the 1800's and take good pictures of them, you could use those to train the A.I. to be more color and texture accurate. Just a suggestion, but it would be nice if you had music from the era/period the photos are from. A.I. could probably provide that too, if you can get sheet music from those times. Just teach it the instrumentation of the time, and it would be able to do a fairly decent representation. This was enjoyable to watch!