Posted on 03/10/2011 8:02:06 AM PST by JoeProBono
SAN FRANCISCO -- A museum volunteer has unearthed what the Smithsonian Institution believes to be the first - and perhaps only - color photographs of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire that nearly leveled the city.
The six never-published images were snapped by photography innovator Frederick Eugene Ives several months after the April 1906 "Great Quake," the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Most were taken from the roof of the hotel where Ives stayed during an October 1906 visit.
They were stowed amid other items donated by Ives' son, Herbert, and discovered in 2009 by National Museum of American History volunteer Anthony Brooks while he was cataloguing the collection.
Looks like Detroit, 2011.
My Uncle would have been very interested in these photos. At six years of age, he and his parents went to San Francisco to search for his Uncle who was never found. Even at age six, he always remembered what he saw.
Wicked....:))
detroit_urban_blight
Color photography in 1906??
Frederic Eugene Ives
Color and stereoscopic photographyIves was a pioneer of color and stereoscopic photography, and demonstrated a system of natural color photography at the 1885 Novelties Exposition of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.[1]
As early as 1900, Ives was tinkering with stereoscopic motion pictures. In 1903 Ives patented the "Parallax Stereogram" a method by which an image made up of interlaced stripes would animate when placed behind a stationary array of opaque, vertical bars and moved laterally. By 1922, he and fellow inventor Jacob Leventhal were producing a popular series of anaglyph 3-D novelty shorts called Plastigrams. The first one was for Educational Pictures released in December 1922, and the latter ones for Pathé Films. On 22 September 1924, one of the Plastigram films, Luna-cy!, was re-released in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.[3]
In 2009, his color photographs of San Fransisco taken shortly after the 1906 earthquake were discovered during cataloging of the collection at the National Museum of American History.[4]
His son Herbert E. Ives was a pioneer of telephotography and television, including color facsimile.
There are several really neat pictures around from that time, but the ones I’ve been able to find online are from other countries.
There are quite a few that are not so bright, but there were some incredible ones from Russia, using a process that was absolutely brilliant in color.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
This one blew me away. I find people’s clothes really interesting - it was a time when people dressed in handmade clothes of ethic inspiration.
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San Franwierdo is a disturbed place. It’s the modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
The quake was god’s warning. And across the eons of history, 105 years is but a blink.
God may bring the real “big one” soon.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ethnic.html
Here’s the link to the ethnic types. It’s like a window into the past.
Very cool stuff - thanks for posting it.
I’ve read several places that there is an old photo of one of the original tea party members. I’ve never been able to find it.
One of the mohawks that night lived to be over a hundred (I think) and he did pose for a picture.
Color does make 100 years ago seem alot more recent than the old black & white.
For early color photography, Google Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (mentioned above), as well as Albert Kahn and Maynard Owen Williams.
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