![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://www.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
These images are Autochromes taken by Clifford R. Adams in England in 1928 for National Geographic.
England, 1928, in colour
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Albert Memorial allotments, 1941
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Colour photographs of Korea, 1955
Colour photographs of Ireland, 1920s
Colour film of VE Day, Pittsburgh, 1945
Screen Sirens, 1920s
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House of David Baseball Team
US Bikini Laws,1922
Colour footage of Swimming Cap Fashions, 1950s
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Photoplay Covers, 1920s
Vintage Rocket Powered Bicycles, 1929-1951
Shop Windows, Soho, London, 1939
"Machynlleth (In the Heart of Cambria)", 1929
Absolutely love the particular colour that only Autochromes gave; no other film produced then, or since, had the same natural colours. Great photos by the way!
Well, I’ll be darned… is that the Mauretania??
What a great set. Also love those “drink milk” posters.
I love the ad headline: ‘All the best people… drink milk.’
Fantabulous stuff!
A blue Australian flag in 1928? should really have been red unless this was official government business??
I wonder what those people would think of us now.