What did the world's most famous landmarks look like at the very beginning

Wolfgang Wilde, the creator and curator of the website Retronaut, has released a book that will change the perception of the past. The book "Paper Time Machine" contains 130 specially selected historical photographs that amaze with their exceptional rarity and restored color. Jordan Lloyd from Dynamichrome was engaged in the coloring of valuable frames.

This selection will take you back to the 1840s and 1940s, when the construction of the most famous attractions to date was just begun.

April 1844. The construction of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square in London.

1882. Construction of the Statue of Liberty in the workshop of French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in Paris.

The 1880s. Construction of the bell tower of the Sacre Coeur Basilica on the highest point of Paris - Montmartre Hill.

1889. The design of the Tower Bridge began in 1881, and the bridge was opened 13 years later. The author of the project, Sir Horace Jones, provided that the central part of the bridge was raised to allow passenger ships to pass.

July 1888, construction of the Eiffel Tower.

In 1918, excavations of Stonehenge began under the command of Colonel and archaeologist William Hawley.

May 31, 1932. John Gutzon Borglum, an American architect, evaluates the work on the face of George Washington on Mount Rushmore.

Construction of the Hoover Dam, a unique hydraulic structure in the USA, which is a concrete arch-gravity dam with a height of 221 m and a hydroelectric power plant built in the lower reaches of the Colorado River.

1934. Construction of the Golden Gate Suspension Bridge, San Francisco.

Restoration of the Taj Mahal. A private from Texas is trying to catch a goldfish in a pond.