The Library of Congress

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Crates of peaches in the orchard, Delta County, Colo. (LOC)

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  • Cosmos Traveler said:
    The color is off,but this might be due to the materials available at the time, or because of deterioration over the years. The photographer did capture a good pattern of repeating shapes, straight and curved. The composition as a whole is very pleasing to the eye.
  • Tony Colonello said:
    The Library of Congress did not seem to take the time to color correct these old photos. But a few moments in Photoshop and you can see how truly beautiful and remarkable these photos were when they were taken.
  • J. Colerangle said:
    I notice that the colors are a bit dark, but I still think that the essence of the pictures are still captured in their entirety.
  • Alan Levine said:
    On recommendation of friends I visited in Paonia (in Delta County) in 2016 I stopped in the town of Delta to buy a box of them, here's the true color (and the taste was divine)

Cecil Rhodes memorial - Buluwayo (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Cecil_Rhodes,_Bulawayo

    "The statue of Cecil John Rhodes in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is a bronze sculpture of the British colonialist, businessman and politician who was the founder of the British South Africa Company (BSAC), through which he founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia.
    The statue was sculpted by a Scottish sculptor, John Tweed and was erected in Bulawayo city centre in 1904. In February 1981, after Southern Rhodesia's independence as Zimbabwe in 1980, the statue was removed from the city centre; it was relocated to the centenary park at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe."

New Year reception at the White House. Photo shows thousands of citizens waiting to be received (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    The President in 1927 was Calvin Coolidge.

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