Web Finds: Historic Black/White Photos In Color


Women delivering ice, 1918

Old pictures are colorless, and because of that, we've imaged the good ol' days in black and white. We dehumanize them by making them insignificant characters in our vivid imagination. But by colorizing them, we realize that they were people with lives and dreams. They had aspirations similar to ours and made jokes and pooped and did things that we're doing right now. Colored historic photographs give life to people that hitherto were just statistics in a history book.

Let's get to it:


Times Square, 1947
Louisiana, 1928

Easter Eggs for Hitler c1944-1945

Painting WWII propaganda posters, 8 July 1942

Titanic sinks, April 15 1912

Construction of the Golden Gate bridge, c1935

Marilyn Monroe, 1957

Portrait Used to Design the Penny. President Lincoln Meets General McClellan – Antietam, Maryland, c September 1862

Theodore Roosevelt, 1898

Norman Rockwell, 1966

Cab stand in Madison Square Park, New York, c 1900

Louisiana, 1937

Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, 4 July 1939
Japanese archers c 1860
http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1exj6z/auto_wreck_in_washington_dc_1921/
Car wreck in Washington DC, 1921

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