Charles W. Cushman took pictures all over America and the rest of the world using Kodachrome film that left us with gorgeous color images that look like they come from a Hollywood film. We’re just not used to seeing those eras in color. Cushion donated 14,500 color slides to Indiana University, which has them in a digital archive. See his pictures of New York in the 1940s at Gothamist. -via Metafilter