[PUGACHEV]

"Those are excellent photos. However, I'd wish they had them scanned digitally and use a program like Adobe Photoshop CS5 or Corel Paint Shop Pro XI to correct the yellowing of the colors on these color photos."

They do; the LOC does distribute JPEGs and TIFF files of these photos. See my posts, above. However, the originals are very high contrast, with over-saturated colors, blocked up shadows, and blown highlights. They need lots of work in PS before they are as good as the examples here. Whoever worked on these photos did a good job.

[RayChuang88]

One of the best things about Adobe PhotoShop CS series is you can use them to clean up old photos. My brother scanned in a number of old family photos and did a magnificent job of restoring them in PhotoShop look almost "new."

They must have did a lot of processing to get them to the presentable form we see on the Denver Post web site.

[Erasmus]

Nobody seems to have mentioned color photos from Imperial Russia yet, so here goes: Sergei Prokudin-Gorski.