Bringing the past to life with colour
John Quincy Adams, the sixth US president, pictured later in his career in 1843, while he was a member of the House of Representatives, using his position there to fight against slavery. Two years before this photo, Adams represented, pro bono, the defendants in United States v. The Amistad Africans in the Supreme Court.
A cropped copy of the original 1843 daguerreotype.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, the 19th President of the United States, pictured here some time during the 1870s, probably during his presidency.
Original B&W photo.
James A. Garfield in 1870, while a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was later to become the 20th President of the United States, but was assassinated after only 200 days, the second shortest term in history.
Original B&W photo.
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, a Conservative politician and statesman served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905.
He is best remembered for the Balfour Declaration of 1917, during his time as Foreign Secretary in David Lloyd George’s wartime coalition government. This laid the ground for the later creation of the state of Israel.
Original B&W photo.
Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth of Cambridge, first cousin to Queen Victoria, being a granddaughter of George III , and the mother of George V’s queen, Mary,
In later life, Mary Adelaide devoted her life to charity, one of the earliest royals to support a wide range of charitable organizations.
Original B&W photo.
As well as being Empress of Austria, Elisabeth was Emperor Franz Joseph’s queen consort of Hungary, and the coronation, on the 8th of June 1867, was commemorated with this photo.
Original B&W photo.
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, in 1898. In that year his wife and Empress of 44 years, Elisabeth, was assassinated by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni.
Original B&W photo.
I think this 1910 oil painting, from which I took the colours, may well have been based on the 1898 photo. Note the extra medals in the painting.
The Kennedy family at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1931
1. Bobby 2. Jack 3. Buddy the dog 4. Eunice 5. Jean 6. Joe Sr. 7. Rose 8. Pat 9. Kick 10. Joe Jr. 11. Rosemary
“Kick” was the nickname of Kathleen, used by all her family and friends, except her mother.
Ted doesn’t appear in this photo, as he wasn’t born yet.
Original B&W photo.
Joseph Patrick “Joe” Kennedy, Sr., father of, among other children, JFK.
According to Wikipedia, this is a yearbook photo from Kennedy’s time at Boston Latin School. but other sources give a date of around 1913, which was the year before his marriage to Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald.
Original B&W photo.
Seen here about 1900, the first of the Kennedy clan to take part in American politics, in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts State Senate, Patrick Joseph “P. J.” Kennedy’s grandson would eventually be the US President, John F. Kennedy.
Original B&W photo.
Tinting History 