Colorized Economists

On this page you find examples of black and white photos of economists colorised by artificial intelligence cum natural intelligence generated tweaks by the curator of Economics in the Rear-view Mirror [Check out other blog content]. Feel free to use any of these in your presentations with acknowledgement.

Below the first twenty-eight of the series…to be continued…

Adolph Wagner

Charles Poor Kindleberger

Charles P. Kindleberger

Fred Manville Taylor

Frederick Manville Taylor

Francis Amasa Walker

General Francis Amasa Walker

Paul Leroy-Beaulieu

Jessica Blanche Peixotto

Eugene von Böhm-Bawerk (1896)

Edward S. Mason,
George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard

Hazel Kyrk,
Professor of Economics and Home Economics, Chicago

Source: Hazel Kyrk portrait from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-03645, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. Colorized by Economics in the Rear-view Mirror.

William Zebina Ripley,
Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Harvard (ca. 1920)

Source: Harvard Library, Hollis Images. Portrait of William Z. Ripley, ca. 1920.  Colorized by Economics in the Rear-view Mirror.

Martin Lawrence Weitzman,
M.I.T. years

Source: Portrait of Martin Weitzman by Margaret W. Foote at the M.I.T. Museum website. Colorized by Economics in the Rear-view Mirror.

Thomas Nixon Carver,
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy at Harvard

Source: Portrait of Thomas Nixon Carver from The World’s Work. Vol. XXVI (May-October 1913) p. 127. Colorized by Economics in the Rear-view Mirror.

Harold Hitchings Burbank,
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy at Harvard

Source: Portrait of Harold Hitchings Burbank in the Harvard Class Album 1934. Colorized by Economics in the Rear-view Mirror.

Henry Carter Adams,
University of Michigan professor of  political economy and finance

Source: Original monochrome image of Henry Carter Adams from the University of Michigan’s Faculty History Project. Colorized by Economics in the Rear-view Mirror.

Henry Rogers Seager,
Columbia University professor of political economy

Source: Original image came from digitalised black-and-white negative in the U.S. Library of Congress. Prints & Photographs Online.

Francis Bowen,
the last part-time economics professor at Harvard

Source: Original black and white image from of Francis Bowen from Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

John Bates Clark,
on the way to Columbia

Source: Amherst Yearbook Olio ’96 (New York, 1894), pp. 7-9. Monochrome image from frontispiece. Another link to same.

Frank William Taussig
Harvard’s first “big gun” in economics

Source: Original black and white image from of Frank William Taussig from a cabinet card photograph, 1895, at the Harvard University Archives HUP.

James Laurence Laughlin,
Harvard trained, first head of the Chicago Department of Political Economy

Source: Original black and white image from of James Laurence Laughlin from Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

Charles Franklin Dunbar
First full-time Harvard Professor of Political Economy

Source: Original black and white image from The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, Vol. VIII, No. 32 (June, 1900), Frontspiece.

 

Charles W. Cobb & Paul H. Douglas
Amherst, 1926

Source: Original black and white image from Amherst College, Digital Collections. Amherst College Yearbook, Olio 1926: Charles W. Cobb on p. 34; Paul H. Douglas on p. 36.

Paul Samuelson,
in his office
(note the blackboard)

Source: Original black and white image from MIT Museum.  Ca. 1960/61 judging from the blackboard writing of son, John, who was born June 2, 1953.

Evsey Domar,
with pipe and chalk

Source: Original black and white image from MIT Museum. “Evsey Domar at the Chalkboard”

Ernst Louis Etienne Laspeyres
(1834-1913)

Source: Original black and white image from Bildarchiv der Universitätsbibliothek Giessen.

Hermann Paasche, 1907
(1851-1925)

Source: Original black and white image from the U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Irving Fisher
Photo published 1927

Source: Original black and white image from U.S. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Online. Irving Fisher, noted economist. Published 1927.

Thorstein Veblen, undated

Source: Original B/W image from University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-08476, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Wassily Leontief, 1946
In his Harvard office

Source: Original B/W image from Harvard University Archives, W491988_1.  Office of News and Public Affairs. 1946

Richard Ely, ca. 1940
at bat in street shoes and a vest.

Source: Original B/W image at University of Wisconsin—Madison. Archives : 3/1, X25 1947.