These colorized photos bring a new and vibrant meaning to history.
Black and white photos use to take us to a different era, a time when things seemed so long ago that it was just too hard to fathom what the previous generations must have been like.
Now, in the age of filters, Photoshop, etc., some photos aren’t as historical or impactful as they once were. However, what if you could reverse the ancient photos and reveal their color in more detail.
As if somehow seeing these iconic images in color would make it more real and close enough to imagine what times were like “back then”. These creative photographers did just that:
1. Sergeant George Camblair practicing with a gas mask, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942
via Ryan Urban
2. Operation Overlord, June 1944
via reddit /u/photojacker
3. Women creating World War II propaganda posters, Port Washington, New York, July 8th, 1942
via Patty Allison
4. Lonely kid with a stuffed animal, London 1945
via Andreas Larsson
5. Auto wreck, Washington D.C., 1921
via reddit /u/mygrapefruit
6. 27-year-old Charlie Chaplin, 1916
via reddit /u/BenAfleckIsAnOkActor
7. Abraham Lincoln
via Andreas Larsson
8. Holiday goers, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905
via reddit /u/mygrapefruit
9. Hellen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin, 1919
10. Easter Eggs for Hitler, circa 1944-1945
via reddit /u/zuzahin
11. Newspaper boy, Ned Parfett, selling the paper bearing the Titanic’s disaster, April 16, 1912
via Dana R. Keller
12. Mark Twain, circa 1900
via reddit /u/zuzahin
13. Broadway, Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga Springs, New York, circa 1900-1915
via Sanna Dullaway
14. Women delivering ice, 1918
via Dana R. Keller
15. Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, April 16th, 1945
via reddit /u/BenAfleckIsAnOkActor
16. Walt Whitman, 1887
Colorized by Dana Keller
17. Abraham Lincoln meets General McClellan, Antietam, Marylan, September 1862
via Zuzah
19. W.H. Murphy and his associate demonstrating their bulletproof vest, October 13th, 1923
via reddit /u/zuzahin
20. Elizabeth Taylor – Giant (1956 film)
Colorized by malakon
21. Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and only surviving family member, revisiting the attic, May 3rd, 1960
via Laiz Kuczynski
22. Hindenburg disaster, May 6, 1937
via reddit /u/klassixx
You can check out even more cool black and white photos colorized over at Reddit’s r/ColorizedHistory.
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