NPR Lost and Found, archives of Charles Cushman (Kodachrome hello)

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Pretty interesting article this morning on NPR I figured I'd share with you all..!

Bonus points for the interactive display and voice over, enjoy.

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/2012/cushman/

In the 1990s, photo historian Rich Remsberg made a wonderful discovery: In a trove of boxes headed for the trash, he found a view of American history like he'd never seen it. That is, America in color, as early as 1938.

The photos Remsberg found had been separated from a much larger collection, housed at Indiana University. It had belonged to hobbyist photographer Charles W. Cushman. Fully reunified, the archive contains more than 14,000 photos spanning three decades we typically see in black and white — including one of the first known color photos of a freshly-painted Golden Gate Bridge.
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Wonderfully told story, thanks for sharing this. There's a small part of me that hopes someone re-discovers my own (admittedly mediocre) photos in the future, astonished at the use of film in a time that had gone almost completely digital :D
 
I thoroughly enjoyed it as well as the 4 related programs that NPR included at the end of the article.

This is just another reason I am a NPR member and supporter.
 
Thanks for the link. I love lost and found stories like this. And of course, a story about someone else that loves color is near and dear to me. :)
 
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Someone sent me the link to this collection a few months ago, it's pretty amazing.

You can *almost* see my house in the lower left corner of this photo.

We've been searching for years for old pictures of our house, it's been here since 1890, but I've only found a couple. We're always just out of the frame...
 
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