Discover the striking photos of Charles W. Cushman, an IU alumnus whose photographs are among the most popular of IU's online image collections.

The 14,500 richly saturated Kodachrome slides, taken between 1938 and 1969, add color to an era primarily recorded in black and white: "a world that we had long since resigned ourselves to viewing only in shades of gray," writes Eric Sandweiss, IU's Carmony Associate Professor of History, in an essay included on the collection's Web site. "In Cushman's work," he observes, "the past becomes, for an instant, impossibly present.

Cushman bequeathed his collection to Indiana University, and his images, which include landscapes, street scenes, and character studies, were digitized by the Digital Library Program.  

To see more, go to the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection.