Yes, I remember seeing it here before, and probably replied then with 
the same reference I'm linking here now, which proves that the 
colorization was indeed a fantasy since color didn't come into the world 
until the 1930s, as any student of photography, such as Calvin's dad,  
well knows:  
http://brake-down.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Invention-of-Color.jpg

And btw, I couldn't get those archive links to open.  Are they really available?

Ben


    ----- Original Message -----  From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>  To: [log in to unmask]  Sent: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 18:44:54 -0000 (UTC)  Subject: Re: Twain colorized photo    Folks-- This photograph (and the practice of colorization) has already been=   discussed on the Forum. See the Forum thread of 10 October 2013 with the S=  ubject line "Colorizing photos from 19C: including MT," started by Hal Bush=  . Here is a link to that initial Forum posting:    https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=3Dind1310&L=3DTWAIN-L&P=3DR1242&I=  =3D-3    The article cited in his e-mail--containing the same colorized photo of MT,=   at Dollis Hill--is still a functioning URL:    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2446391/Amazing-Civil-War-photograp=  hs-created-colorist-bring-eras-heroes-characters-life-color-time.html    The location is verified as Dollis Hill, 1900, per a Forum posting at that =  time by none other than Robert Hirst of the Mark Twain Project:    https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=3Dind1310&L=3DTWAIN-L&P=3DR1824&I=  =3D-3    The copyright for that photo, as it appears in the Daily Mail, is "Mads Dah=  l Madsen / Dynamichrome."    Hope this helps!    M. L. Christmas    --------------------------------------------  On Sat, 3/8/14, Fred Harwood  wrote:     Subject: Re: Twain colorized photo -   To: [log in to unmask]   Date: Saturday, March 8, 2014, 11:37 AM  =20   The link contains as much as I know   about the photo.  =20   Google around for the source. My brief effort suggested that   many have =3D   posted it, but without linking to original work.  =20  =20   On Mar 8, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Kit Barry    wrote:  =20   > Thank you for this image. It came out very well on my   printer.   > Since this image is going into the archive I curate, it   would   > be most helpful if I could add the following   information:   >=3D20   >=A0 -=A0 When was photograph taken:   >=3D20   >=A0 -=A0 By whom:   >=3D20   >=A0 -=A0 Where was photograph taken, as in   Hartford, Elmira, other:   >=3D20   >=A0 -=A0 Was the original photograph a sepia   print, black & white:   >=3D20   >=A0 -=A0 When and by whom was the photograph   colorized:   >=3D20   >=A0 -=A0 Method of colorization:   >=3D20   >=A0 -=A0 Is it known why this photograph was   taken, as in for a special =3D   occasion:   >=3D20   > -=A0 Was this photograph used for a specific   purpose, as in publicity:   >=3D20   > Thanking you in advance,   >=3D20   > Kit Barry   > The Ephemera Archive for American Studies   > Brattleboro, Vermont  =20   Fred Harwood   Linwood Cottage   Sheffield