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Many travellers’ bucket lists are filled with famous landmarks they’d like to visit – but what about travelling back in time to see what they looked like when they were under construction?

 

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A new book project called The Paper Time Machine hopes to help people feel like a time traveller by showcasing historical images restored and rendered in realistic colour – including images that show what many famous landmarks looked like as they were built. The project is a collaboration between the Retronaut website, which features images from the past, and Dynamichrome, a company that does colour reconstructions of pictures.

 

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Retronaut and Dynamichrome, along with Getty Images, are looking for support for the project on Unbound – a crowdfunding site used by authors to get pledges from readers to make the book.

The book will contain 130 historical photographs arranged chronologically, which will be chosen by Wolfgang Wild, the creator of Retronaut.  The images will be restored and rendered in colour, each “researched and colour checked for historical authenticity”, by Dynamichrone’s Jordan Lloyd.

 

 

Some of the images feature the construction of famous sites from around the world, including the Eiffel Tower and the Hoover Dam.

Learn more about the project here.