I love these colorized photos, too!! They are most tastefully done, and really do what photos should do: put you into a world of the past that you can identify with as vividly real, and not quaintly archaic. It also demolishes Calvin's dad's heretofore convincing argument that color did not appear in the world until "sometime in the [19]30s" : http://imgur.com/r/calvinandhobbes/4rPGp (my all time favorite cartoon strip). 

Ben 
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From: "Heather Morgan" <[log in to unmask]> 
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Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:51:45 AM 
Subject: Re: colorizing photos from 19C: including MT 

=C2=A0OK, so=C2=A0I'm not a purist. I love these photos! All are beautifull= 
y done,=20 
but the one of Mark Twain is outstanding. Thank you for sending them=20 
out. 
Heather 
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=C2=A0On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:32 AM, Hal Bush wrote: 
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=C2=A0> This project represents a very good intention, I think; and I think= 
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some of 
> these photos are quite lovely. But I wonder what other scholars think=20 
> of 
> this technique?? Mostly soldiers but also including our paragon,=20 
> MT... 
> 
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2446391/Amazing-Civil-War-photogr= 
aphs-created-colorist-bring-eras-heroes-characters-life-color-time.html 
> 
> thanks, --Hal B. 
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> 
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> Prof. Harold K. Bush 
> Professor of English 
> 3800 Lindell 
> Saint Louis University 
> St. Louis, MO 63108 
> 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) 
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