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I Add A Twist To Historical Images By Combining Them With Recent Ones To Show How Much Things Have Changed (30 Pics)
I’ve been taking pictures all my life. My parents bought me my first camera – a Kodak Instamatic – when I was 10 years old. I took pictures of everything: people, places, animals, nature, and inanimate objects. It didn’t matter what, I just loved taking pictures. One of the most exciting things about photography back then was taking rolls of undeveloped film cartridges to the local drugstore and waiting days to see the prints once they were ready. They’d come back freshly delivered in yellow Kodak envelopes with center dividers separating the prints from the negatives. I still have hundreds of them.
It was also a time when I developed a lifelong interest in history. Growing up in Boston, my parents would take me to all the historic Revolutionary War-era sites, where, naturally, I’d take lots of pictures. I was 16 when we moved to Northern Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington DC., and I spent the entire first summer there exploring our nation’s capital. Later, during my college years at Virginia Tech, I visited many of the Civil War-era battlefields, such as Gettysburg, Manassas, and Antietam. These places left an indelible mark on me.
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#1
Chicago, Mercury Train Leaving Chicago 1936 / 2020
Final score:
78points
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#2
Boston, Quincy Market 1900 / 2018
Final score:
56points
#3
New York, A Bird's Eye View Of New York 1851 / 2020
Final score:
55points
#4
Fire! Chicago Fire Of 1871 / 2021
Final score:
54points
#5
New Orleans, Canal Street 1907 / 2019
Final score:
45points
#6
London Bridge 1900 / 2022
Final score:
43points
Julian Heal 3 years ago
And the second photo is a combination of two views looking south and north.
#7
Chicago, Graham & Morton Line Docks 1905 / 2019
Final score:
40points
#8
Havana Cuba, The Prado Looking North 1901 / 2019
Final score:
38points
#10
Houston 1873 / 2022
Final score:
36points
#11
Fire! San Francisco Earthquake And Fire Of 1906 / 2022
Final score:
35points
#14
New York, Brooklyn Bridge 1899 / 2022
Final score:
33points
Kar Red Roses 3 years ago
The guy in the bowler hat looking back us from at the photo is creeping me out.
#16
Chicago, George Streeter And The Reutan 1902 / 2022
Final score:
28points
#17
Chicago, Arriving From The Suburbs 1907 / 2019
Final score:
26points
#18
Boston Pictorial Map 1850 / 2021
Final score:
25points
#19
Chicago, Boat House Lincoln Park 1905 / 2018
Final score:
24points
#22
San Francisco, Van Ness Avenue 1906 / 2018
Final score:
23points
#24
New York, Plaza Hotel 1900 / 2018
Final score:
22points
#25
Chicago, Looking North From Van Buren Station 1915 / 2019
Final score:
21points
Michelle Coppess 3 years ago
The two buildings that match up in both pictures look so different in size. The older one makes the building look so big since everything else was smaller. Now in the new one they look so much smaller due to the surrounding buildings being so much bigger!
#27
George Washington's Tomb At Mount Vernon 1878 / 2018
Final score:
21points
Kar Red Roses 3 years ago
I own a couple century-old postcards of this tomb.. One of them somebody put glitter on! Fun(?)fact- The government wanted to iinter George Washington in the District of Columbia, underneath the Capitol and there is in the basement an empty tomb there that was made for him, just left there.
#28
George Washington's Mount Vernon 1858 / 2021
Final score:
19points
#29
Chicago, The Dream City 1893 / 2018
Final score:
18points
Bill Swallow 3 years ago
It looks like the Squint-a-Vision caption underneath "The Dream City" reads "The World Columbia Exposition". With that, and the Chicago 1893 setting, the 'Dream City' would appear to be the event also known as "The White City" - the 1893 Chicago Exposition / World's Fair. A remarkable event and a remarkable achievement, this Exposition was marred by being the venue for America's first Serial Killer, 'H. H. Holmes', who set up a hotel that he deliberately designed as a "Murder Palace", luring in fairgoers and killing them. This true story is recounted in Erik Larson's book, "The Devil in the White City". Interestingly, the 1939 New York World's Fair was also beset by violence, in that case, a terrorist bombing, as recounted in James Mauro's excellent book, "Twilight at the World of Tomorrow".
#31
London, Tower Of London 1890 / 2022
Final score:
15points
John Dilligaf 2 years ago
OK picture caption writer; that's not the Tower of London. That's the Tower Bridge. Different thing entirely.
#34
Chicago, State Street And Marshall Field's 1915 / 2018
Final score:
14points
Kar Red Roses 3 years ago
For a time, the Fields building was the largest store in the world at 73 acres (300,000 sq. m) of floorspace, with the largest book, china, shoe, and toy departments of all the world's department stores. It had the first-ever bridal registry, the first in-store dining facilities, the first, European buying office, the first offer personal shopping assistants, and the first department store to have escalators. The building itself was twelve floors, made of granite, well appointed and beautiful, with a Louis Comfort Tiffany glass ceiling dome in one of its three atria, and ornate store clocks on 2 of the external corners.
#37
Chicago, Experimental Streetcar On State Street 1933 / 2019
Final score:
11points
#38
Day To Night: Los Angeles, Broadway Building Hollywood 1947 / 2021
Final score:
11points
#39
San Francisco, Phelan Building 1906 / 2018
Final score:
11points
Bella St John 3 years ago
Congratulations! For me, while your talent and ideas are great, possibly the thing I find most astounding is that you have found photos of essentially the same view years apart. Well done!
#41
Los Angeles, Hollywood Boulevard West From Vine Street 1937 / 2022
Final score:
10points
Holly Race 3 years ago
Was it just me that spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to read the Twitter post?
#42
New Orleans, French Market 1910 / 2018
Final score:
10points
#44
Washington Dc, East Capitol Street 1900 / 2018
Final score:
9points
#46
Chicago, State Street South Of Lake Street 1900 / 2017
Final score:
8points
#47
Day To Night: Chicago, State And Randolph 1933 / 2022
Final score:
8points
#50
Day To Night: Chicago, Tunnel Entrance Lasalle & Randolph 1905 / 2022
Final score:
5points
Multa Nocte 2 years ago
I am confused on this one. Is it the same except for the hand tinting?
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Kar Red Roses 3 years ago
As a postcard collector I delight in doing this with vintage and modern views. This park is right up my alley! Great job :-) all the Win
Kar Red Roses 3 years ago
As a postcard collector I delight in doing this with vintage and modern views. This park is right up my alley! Great job :-) all the Win
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