Monthly Archives: January 2015

Mario Lanza – The Voice

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 269 of Colourisation Project – January 31 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. What Alfred Arnold Cocozza lacked in height, he made up for with his beautiful tenor voice. An … Continue reading →

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Eileen Wearne – Trailblazing Sprinter

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 268 of Colourisation Project – January 30 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. At the start of the 20th century, athletics was no place for a woman. Pierre de … Continue reading →

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Dr. Anton Chekhov

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 267 of Colourisation Project – January 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Today’s colourisation subject is the Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov, born this day, 29 January in 1860. … Continue reading →

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James Scullin – A Man of the People

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 266 of Colourisation Project – January 28 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Timing is everything in politics. Australia’s ninth Prime Minister, James Scullin was unlucky in his timing. … Continue reading →

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Quintessentially Donna Reed

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 265 of Colourisation Project – January 27 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Although she presented a squeaky-clean on-screen image of the archetypal 1950’s housewife and mother, Donna Belle Mullenger … Continue reading →

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Bessie Coleman – Free Barnstorming Pilot

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 264 of Colourisation Project – January 26 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born on this day, January 26, in 1892, Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman broke through the gender and … Continue reading →

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Virginia Woolf’s Last Letter

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 263 of Colourisation Project – January 25 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Today’s subject for colourisation is the most iconic likeness of Virginia Woolf, who was born this … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up with Edith Wharton

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 262 of Colourisation Project – January 24 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born into the wealth and privilege of a distinguished and long-established New York family, Edith Newbold … Continue reading →

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Anna Pavlova – ‘The Broom’

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 261 of Colourisation Project – January 23 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. The most-celebrated and influential dancer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Anna Pavlova was … Continue reading →

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Jean Simmons – Underestimated Star

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 260 of Colourisation Project – January 22 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Jean Simmons, a leading lady of British and American cinema for over six decades passed away … Continue reading →

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