Colorizing Historical Images

By Joe Delise

Mission Motors. Below is the original from the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

Next up: A Man, A Mission and his Mules. 

Original photo courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

Local historian Neal Graffy states the gentleman in the photo is Matias Reyes. He was a wood cutter and lived in Mission Canyon where he owned over 10 acres. The photo was taken between 1883 and the summer of 1886.