# Photos of the Blue People of Kentucky?

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**Created:** [December 13, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-the-blue-people-of-kentucky/335340 "2005-12-13T00:55:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-the-blue-people-of-kentucky/335340/1 "2005-12-13T00:55:41Z")

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I remember reading about these people and I googled up information on them, but I haven’t found any photos of them. Does anyone know where I can find photos of them? Or if photos even exist?

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photos-of-the-blue-people-of-kentucky/335340/2 "2005-12-13T01:24:48Z")

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The only photograph I’ve seen of the older Fugates is, of course, black and white:

[http://hazardkentucky.com/2000/fugate\_blue.htm](http://hazardkentucky.com/2000/fugate_blue.htm)

Color photography was not common before the 1930’s, though various systems were invented a couple decades earlier.

If you dig through the material on the blue Fugates, you can find a couple of paintings, which appear to be watercolors:

[http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/blueky2.html](http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/blueky2.html)  
[http://www.mc.uky.edu/ahec/skyahec/Image8.gif](http://www.mc.uky.edu/ahec/skyahec/Image8.gif)

The first link is supposed to be Luna Fugate. The accounts say she was quite pretty, except for being blue.