This beautiful original photo comes courtesy of the New South Wales (NSW) State Archives (Australia). It shows what looks to be a mother, father, and their five sons.
It has been beautifully colorized with rich, true to life colors by Okkama Colorizations, now providing services exclusively at The Psychogenealogist.
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As I write this the world is in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic. Professional photo colorization is literally the last thing anyone needs to be thinking about right now. But, I have some time on my hands. So here we are. Vote for the photo you would like to see colorized next.
Okkama Colorization at The Psychogenealogist of βMan reading the November 1956 Florida Outdoors magazine underwater at Silver Springsβ. Original courtesy of the State Library and Archives of Florida.
βA young boy clutches his winner of 42 first-place prizes - a bulldog, named Beauty - as he arrives at the London Bulldog Championship Show in 1928.β That, and the history of Sprattβs Dog Cakes! Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2020).
This is an interesting grouping of men in my family tree. My grandfather, James William Halvangis (1920-1973) stands with his father in-law, two brothers in-law, and two nephews some time between 1943 and 1945. Photo was colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019).
It was a cool and wet Saturday afternoon at the corner of 5th Avenue and Saginaw Street in Flint, Michigan. On Saturday, May 4th, 1946, high school sweethearts, Betty Grace Sears (1924-1981) and Michael John Hanley Jr. (1924-2015), were married at St. Michael Catholic Church.
We scoured the newspapers to find 15 times in history when βSanta Clausβ found himself in some really embarrassing situations.
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). The original black and white photograph shows Australian actors on a theater set playing cards around 1900.
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). Original photo from the NSW State Archives (Australia).
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). Original photo taken by Lewis Hine (West Virginia, 1908).
The very end of Stanley Kubrickβs The Shining features a spooky black and white photo of the fictional Overlook Hotel Ballroom and guests in 1921. Here it is colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019).
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). The Murdoch siblings, Adeline (age 4), Maude (age 8), and Sidney (age 3) of Kilcoran, Ireland (1905).
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). A family caravan, perhaps around 1914 at Jesmond Dene, a public park in north-east England.
Whatβs not to love about old-timey sailing men on a ship holding bunnies? These men sailed on the John Ena in May of 1916. Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019).
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). Mr. Gerald Flood sits with his family in 1930s Castleboro, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). The 1895 Bank of Montreal Hockey Team is reimagined in full, glorious color! Can you help us find their stories?
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). Catherine M. Rooney, 6th grade teacher in Washington D.C., gives a lesson on War Ration Book Two in 1943.
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). American soldier, Vincent J. Orivello [i.e. Crivello] of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, eating ice-cream at a sidewalk cafe in Palermo with three of his cousins.
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). Who are these young women and what are their colorful stories?
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). Original photo (1914) by unknown photographer, courtesy of the University of British Columbia Library Digitization Centre.
Colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). Original photo by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) in 1910.
A talented photograph colorization artist has the power to make your ancestors stories come to life. Here is an example from my own family history: The Rhoads Sisters.
Two Civil War photo colorizations of U.S. Sharpshooters. This was a unique collaboration between us and Military Images, Americaβs only magazine dedicated solely to the study of portrait photographs of Civil War soldiers.