Every time I think of my parents or grandparents' upbringing, my mind recreates their stories in black & white. When you look at photographs from the early 1900's, what makes it old? Black & white photography, right?

Well, sometimes it's the cars or the people's dress (I often think that color was absent from clothing pre-1950), but this photo series blew all of that out of the water. They're not colorized versions of black and white images—they're the real deal.

They stopped me in my tracks—look at how vivid some of the colors are! They made me feel a certain connection to a time that I have only heard about anecdotally.

We speak about the power of photography all the time, but I had become jaded with the deluge of media in my life. These photos made me stop, look… feel. Incredible.