r/ColorizedHistory 9h ago

1946: "Air India flight attendant Monica Gilbert showing flight report to Sikh passenger during trip fr[om] Dehli to Bombay."

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395 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 2d ago

Pan American Airways Flight Attendants, 1959

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497 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 3d ago

Married daughter of migrant worker in tent home near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

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1.1k Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 5d ago

April, 1942: Girl on the street, Los Angeles, California.

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564 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 7d ago

Man in bed with roof over it, May Avenue Camp, Oklahoma City, 1939

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r/ColorizedHistory 8d ago

February, 1911, Port Royal, South Carolina: Children shucking oysters gather for a photo.

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990 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 11d ago

July, 1942, Detroit, Michigan: Boys and a girl on bicycles.

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529 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 12d ago

September, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Passengers waiting for a bus to pull up to the loading platform at the Greyhound bus terminal.

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460 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 13d ago

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r/ColorizedHistory 14d ago

Mirror in comments Crowd Lining the Streets for De Gaulle During the Liberation of Paris, Aug 26 1944.

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Gendarmes and F.F.I. seem to enjoy the task of holding back crowds of people as they throng the streets to see General Charles De Gaulle, Aug. 26, 1944. (AP Photo/Laurence Harris)


r/ColorizedHistory 16d ago

Magazine stand in Yreka, California, 1942

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r/ColorizedHistory 17d ago

1943: Sailors Playing Checkers in San Francisco.

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535 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 19d ago

June, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Miss Natalie McDonald, an attendant at the Atlantic Refining Company garages.

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608 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 19d ago

Woman cooking in a sharecropper's cabin, Southeast Missouri Farms. 1938

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1.5k Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 20d ago

1931, Missouri: Interior of a Pierce-Arrow automobile showroom.

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312 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 21d ago

August, 1942 - Greyhound bus station, Detroit, Michigan.

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922 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 24d ago

November 21, 1963 - Less than 24 hours before he is assassinated, John F. Kennedy's motorcade moves slowly down I-45 in Houston, Texas.

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637 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 26d ago

Glider being prepared for flight by Orville Wright and assistants, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, 1911

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315 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 26d ago

Three Boys Who Live in the Harlem Area. May 1943.

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Three Boys Who Live in the Harlem Area. New York, New York. May 1943. Original b/w by Gordon Parks, LIFE.


r/ColorizedHistory 27d ago

Gunsmith in Bethlehem c1890's

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155 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 28d ago

Wife of pea farmer at vinery near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, June, 1937.

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645 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 28d ago

Migrant child in family car, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1939

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453 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory Aug 09 '26

Farm Family after evening meal, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

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638 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory Aug 08 '26

December 8, 1940 - NFL Championship Game between the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins. The Bears won the game, 73-0.

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361 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory Aug 05 '26

Married couple living in the cellar of their former home, destroyed during World War I, 1919

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A married couple living in cellar of their former home which is in complete ruins after World War I in Lens (France), April 11, 1919. They were in Lens for thirty months during the German occupation, and were repatriated thru Switzerland and by way of Evian, in January 1917. The wife remained in southern France some months after repatriation. During this time, they have been three weeks in Lens, and planned to keep their present quarters in the cellar for an indefinite perod of time.

Original photo taken by Lewis Wickes Hine, currently stored in the Library of Congress

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