22 Colorized Photos From History Will Completely Change How You See The Past

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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