Today’s the actual birthday of Abraham Lincoln. We’re used to seeing photos of him black and white, but a new book makes the photos look more lifelike. The above photo is now all over the Internet, but the photos are part of a book of colorized Lincoln photos that you can get HERE. Here are some more samples.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.