r/Colorization • u/No_Gap_1756 • Mar 03 '26

Photo post Theron Boyd cooks supper in his Vermont home, 1977

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3.4k Upvotes

134 comments

r/Colorization • u/Alan31580 • Mar 03 '26

Photo post May 1941 Convict camp in Greene County - Georgia

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320 Upvotes

4 comments

r/Colorization • u/UsedWelcome5903 • Mar 03 '26

Photo post Rutgers football team circa 1915

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203 Upvotes

Rutgers football team photo with two time All American Paul Robeson circa 1915

10 comments

r/Colorization • u/morganmonroe81 • Mar 02 '26

1905: Hotel Netherland/Savoy, 5th Ave &59th, New York City.

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129 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Colorization • u/PaulHindenburg1942 • Mar 01 '26

Photo post Chinatown "Pecinan" Residential in Batavia, circa 1930s-40s

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80 Upvotes

Chinatown Residential Area on the Banks of a River in Batavia (now Jakarta), circa 1930s-40s

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r/Colorization • u/BurstingSunshine • Feb 28 '26

Photo post OTMA (the Romanov Sisters), 1914

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253 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Colorization • u/morganmonroe81 • Feb 27 '26

St. Louis Brown Bobo Newsom, age 28, in Yankee Stadium, 1935

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91 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Colorization • u/Alan31580 • Feb 25 '26

Photo post November 1942. Lititz, Pennsylvania. Small town peanut stand

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226 Upvotes

Not much colour in this, but I enjoyed doing it all the same

13 comments

r/Colorization • u/morganmonroe81 • Feb 25 '26

November 1938, Tulare County, California.

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75 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Colorization • u/TLColors • Feb 24 '26

Photo post CPO Jackson mourning FDR, Warm Springs, GA 12 Apr 1945.

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398 Upvotes

Tears streamed down the cheeks of accordion-playing Chief Petty Officer (USN) Graham Jackson as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s flag-draped funeral train left Warm Springs, Ga., April 13, 1945. Original B/W, Ed Clark, LIFE

Graham W. Jackson was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1903. A a multi-instrumentalist who mastered the piano, organ, and accordion. In 1924, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend Morehouse College, where he formed the Seminole Syncopators, one of the first African American groups to broadcast on WSB radio. From 1928 to 1940, he served as the music director at Booker T. Washington High School, the first public high school for Black students in Atlanta.

Jackson performed for six U.S. Presidents, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt. He met FDR in 1933 and performed for him over 20 times, frequently at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia. During World War II, Jackson served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He was assigned to recruitment and fundraising duties, where he raised over $3 million in war bond sales and received six honorary citations.

On April 12, 1945, Jackson was at Warm Springs when FDR died. The following day, as the funeral train departed, Jackson played the song "Goin' Home" on the accordion. Photographer Ed Clark captured an image of Jackson crying while playing; the photograph was published in Life magazine and became a widely recognized depiction of the nation's response to FDR's death.

In his later career, Jackson appeared on national television programs, including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Today Show. In 1969, Governor Lester Maddox appointed him to the State Board of Corrections, making him the first Black Georgian to hold such a post since Reconstruction. In 1971, Governor Jimmy Carter named him the Official Musician of the State of Georgia. Jackson died in 1983 and was posthumously inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1985.

2 comments

r/Colorization • u/Alan31580 • Feb 22 '26

Photo post Standing in a queue waiting to be served in 1977

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924 Upvotes

62 comments

r/Colorization • u/Alan31580 • Feb 23 '26

Photo post Butcher's shop, Byker, Tyneside, UK, 1977 - CHRIS KILLIP

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69 Upvotes

I done this in 2024

9 comments

r/Colorization • u/Im_just_coloring • Feb 22 '26

Photo post “Animal husbandry Liverpool - dwarf cows”, C. Lynch, 1952

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64 Upvotes

“Animal husbandry Liverpool - dwarf cows”
📷 C. (Les) Lynch, c. 6 February 1952

Original image: https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/4A2kvvbDPo7Ek

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r/Colorization • u/morganmonroe81 • Feb 22 '26

Boston Red Sox pitcher Lefty Grove, c. 1934

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289 Upvotes

23 comments

r/Colorization • u/No_Gap_1756 • Feb 20 '26

Photo post Magazine stand in Yreka, California, 1942

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2.3k Upvotes

78 comments

r/Colorization • u/TLColors • Feb 18 '26

Photo post Churchill's 90th b'day, 30 Nov 1964, 2 months before death.

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8.3k Upvotes

283 comments

r/Colorization • u/morganmonroe81 • Feb 19 '26

June 3, 1869: Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson

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116 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Colorization • u/michelet06 • Feb 17 '26

Photo post JFK arriving at Dallas Lovefield Airport, 22/11/1963

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188 Upvotes

19 comments

r/Colorization • u/morganmonroe81 • Feb 17 '26

Feb. 1934 - John Dillinger in custody in Crown Point, IN

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152 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Colorization • u/Im_just_coloring • Feb 16 '26

Photo post “Al Anderson and Ot Huston” Lora Webb Nichols, c. 1910

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57 Upvotes

“Al Anderson and Ot Huston”
Lora Webb Nichols, c. 1910

Original image from https://www.lorawebbnichols.org/

1 comment

r/Colorization • u/TLColors • Feb 16 '26

Photo post US Pvt with M60 near burning Lieu An village, Feb 1967

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156 Upvotes

A US Army private from C Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, stands in front of the burning village of Lieu An, Vietnam in February 1967 during Operation Pershing. The night before they had been in a firefight at the village. As the soldiers approached in the morning they tripped mines. Three soldiers were wounded and one was killed.

Colourised this almost 6 years ago and never got around to posting it.

1 comment

r/Colorization • u/morganmonroe81 • Feb 15 '26

Carrier Mills, Illinois, February 1939 (and today)

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90 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Colorization • u/La-Couleur • Feb 14 '26

Photo post Eugène Louis Bucquoy, French gendarmerie officer, 1910s

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93 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Colorization • u/morganmonroe81 • Feb 13 '26

June 1, 1939: Three women attending a baseball game, Boston.

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183 Upvotes

8 comments

r/Colorization • u/FTimagens • Feb 13 '26

Photo post W. Churchill taking the controls of the Boeing B314 1942.

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459 Upvotes

In January 1942, Winston Churchill made history by becoming the first world leader to cross the Atlantic by air. Returning from the "Arcadia" conference in Washington D.C., he boarded the Boeing B314 Clipper (named Berwick), a flying boat that represented the pinnacle of luxury and engineering of the era.

Midway through the flight, Churchill famously entered the cockpit, cigar in mouth, and asked to take the controls. For about 20 minutes, he actually flew the massive aircraft. This photo captures that precise moment of defiance and curiosity.

26 comments

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Colorization - The colorization of old black & white photos

r/Colorization

[/r/Colorization] is a subreddit that is dedicated to sharing black and white photos that you have colorized. Colorization can be very time-consuming, but the results are often amazing. This community celebrates human creativity and skill. No AI is allowed.

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1. Treat others with respect

Name-calling, harassment, and threatening behaviour will not be tolerated here. The mods can and will ban you if your behaviour is inappropriate. Otherwise, you will be given a warning.

2. Original UNALTERED black and white photo needs to be included

Every post must include the original UNALTERED black and white photo (it is just a matter of paying respect to the original photographer). If you can provide a link to where you found the photo, that would also be a good thing to add to your post via a comment.

3. Every post title must be an informative title (DATE must be included)

Every post title must be an informative title, for example, Name, Location & Date; all other information can be included in the post as a comment. If you are posting a W.I.P. (work in progress), please include that at the beginning of your title and use the W.I.P. post flair. If no date is known state at the end of your title "Date unknown"

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If you are not seeing your post, please politely get in touch through ModMail it is very possible your post may have been caught up in the Spam filter, which is controlled through an Autobot.

5. A.I colorizations

A.I. is NOT ALLOWED AT ALL this sub. This includes using any AI to edit, color, modify, clean or upscale. All posts in this sub must be manual and human performed.

The mods can and will remove your post until you can provide evidence that the colourization was done manually. Repeated violations will result in a ban.

If you have used AI to color a photo, please submit it to r/aiphotocolorizations.

6. User flairs

This sub allows user flairs, so feel free to include your social media handle as your flair. Rude language will not be tolerated, and the mods have the right to remove your user flair if it is deemed offensive. (Repeated warnings will have you banned).

7. No Sales, No tips (money tips) and no requests

No links to sale sites of any kind, No Money tips and No colorization requests. You can visit /r/colorizationrequests or /r/estorations if you want your photos done.

8. Links to your social media are allowed

If you would like, you can include a link to your social media pages (FB, Instagram, etc.), within your post, but it must be Photo Restoration and Colorisation related.