Weirs Bridge postcard c1905

[SteveA]

Originally Posted by Jonas Pilot

They're all photos. In the olden days there was no color cameras. To add color each black and white photograph was hand painted with a watercolor paint. Wallace Nutting from Massachusetts was one of the premiere practitioners in the early 1900's. Wallace Nutting's colorists painted the photographs which he took.

I collected up a number of the same type of colorized photos done by Charles Sawyer Photos of Concord NH. He was active at the same time that Nutting.

More info on Sawyer is here:

http://www.wnutting.com/nuttinglikepictures/index.html

I have about 10 of the Sawyer prints, they are remarkable. he did only a few that featured Winnipesaukee, and I've never been able to find a Winni specific print on E-Bay