Look Again
Photos previously seen only in black and white spring to life thanks to a little touch of color.
Photos previously seen only in black and white spring to life thanks to a little touch of color.
There is no shortage of old Dartmouth im- agery, iconic and otherwise, to help us pre- serve and cherish our past. Rauner Special Collections houses more than 300,000 photos—but many of them are monochromatic, ren- dering much of College history in shades of gray. With this portfolio of newly colorized Dartmouth images, the past shows its true colors. It becomes more vi- brant and textured, more nuanced and revealing. “By colorizing, I watch the photos come alive, and sud- denly the people feel more real and history becomes more tangible,” says Sanna Dullaway, a Swedish artist who has mastered state-of-the-art digital techniques for colorizing black-and-white images and spent sev- eral months working on this project for DAM. Her subtle touch—no original photos were harmed in the making of this portfolio—produces results that remain true to the original: Subjects appear as if they had originally been photographed in color.
To view a slideshow of the black-and-white versions of the images shown here, along with Dullaway’s colorized versions, go to our website at www.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com
Massachusetts Sen. Daniel Webster, class of 1801, as captured by photographer John
Baseball practice, 1938.
Wives of members of the class of 1876 relax near Rollins Chapel during their husbands’ 25th reunion in 1901.
Crew team, 1940.
The student band, caught in action by College photographer Adrian Bouchard, 1938.
Don Carroll Bliss, class of 1892, gives a lighthearted address to classmates and spectators at the Bema on Class Day, June 28, 1892.
Adrian Bouchard’s image of undergrads relaxing on the lawn served as the cover of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine’s June 1947 issue.
Members of the class of 1923 cavort around the Green at their 15th reunion, 1938.
Football fans check out pennants for sale near the Hanover Inn, 1955.
Trustee Nelson Rockefeller ’30, Dartmouth Airways cofounder Clayton Gray ’41 and College President John Sloan Dickey ’29 in June 1946.
In 1942 President Ernest Martin Hopkins, class of 1901 (right), meets with two professors to “discuss more closely relating Dartmouth’s work to military service,” according to the January 1943 issue of DAM.
