Two Boys 2

The ongoing collection of vintage pictures featured here dates between the 1880s and the early 1950s (dates are provided whenever available).

All pictures have been scanned and undergone some level of correction in Photoshop (levels, contrast, color balance, sharpening and the like) by myself. Most of the time, the intention was not to "restore" these images (in the sense of erasing the traces of Time's passing) but rather to remain faithful to the originals.

Since any photograph over 50 years old falls into public domain (or so I've been told), there are no copyrights on these pictures. You may therefore feel free to use and abuse them in your own creations.

However, please bear in mind that the reason I'm displaying these pictures here is for their mere enjoyment, as objects of beauty in their own right, and not for the purpose of being incorporated into new artwork.

If you do use these pictures nonetheless, I would very much appreciate your sending me a link to your Deviation, so that I might add your work to my Favourites.