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Interesting. Number 20 is downtown Mobile Alabama with a photo date of 1901. The square, Bienville Square, is still there beside the street. The building facades have changed over time. Some were torn down and replaced with much larger more modern buildings. Now days some of the older buildings have been converted back to look like a time when they were new with all the historic touches...like iron grillwork.


Images from Google EArth.

Most of those look, to me, to be b/w photos that were hand colored......IMHO.
Color film was uncommon and poor quality until the 1930s I think.
But still cool photos......


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Read under the photo at the link. You're right. They were B&W and colorized.

Yup, that's what happens when you don't read the fine print and just start looking at the photos........


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Don't knock it, that was state of the art once

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colo ... hotographs