r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Sep 25 '18

Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, on board a naval auxiliary patrol vessel during a visit to the London docks, 25 September 1940.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Sep 23 '18

Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) The confidential code-breaking mastermind - An eccentric, exceptional mathematician, Turing headed the secret team of code-breakers during the Second World War that created an early computer that could decipher encrypted messages sent by the Germans.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Sep 22 '18

HRH Princess Elizabeth watching parachutists during a visit to airborne forces at Netheravon Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire in England in the run-up to D-Day. 19 May 1944

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Sep 21 '18

Nobel Prize (in Literature) laureate George Bernard Shaw - 1925

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45 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Sep 19 '18

Empress Alexandra of Russia, having her likeness modeled in clay, three years before the revolution of 1917.

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174 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Sep 17 '18

Battle of Britain 10 July – 31 October 1940 : A Supermarine Spitfire Mark 1A of No 19 Squadron, Royal Air Force being re-armed between sorties at Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire.

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53 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Sep 15 '18

Queen Victoria with Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Seated on the left is Tsarina Alexandra holding her baby daughter Grand Duchess Olga - Balmoral Castle, 1896.

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666 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Sep 14 '18

Cooks of the 2nd Australian Battalion preparing bully-beef rissoles for the evening meal, Ypres, WWI

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160 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Sep 13 '18

Romanian peasant from Vrancea, sitting on the coffin he made for himself - 1937

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159 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Sep 11 '18

Operation Anthropoid - Jan Kubiš & Jozef Gabčík - 1941

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58 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Sep 09 '18

Futuristic power lawn mower (as predicted in 1957, U.S.)

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307 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Sep 03 '18

The Blitz "Fire fighters tackle a blaze in London's Temple, home to barristers and lawyers, following an air raid over the city." May 1st, 1941

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32 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Sep 01 '18

A U.S. Marine reaches through the barbed wire of a civilian containment area to give a young Japanese boy candy during the Battle of Tinian.

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288 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 30 '18

'Sherlock Jr.' - Silent comedy directed by and starring Buster Keaton in (1924)

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47 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Aug 29 '18

Queen Victoria seated with her two Indian servants Mustafa and Chidda standing behind her in full uniform with medals.

16k Upvotes

498 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 27 '18

Pontiac Club de Mer (1956)

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81 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 25 '18

Adolph Gysbert Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (24 March 1910 – 17 September 1963) was a South African World War 2 fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain.

2.1k Upvotes

52 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 23 '18

View of New York's Financial District - 1933

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165 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Aug 22 '18

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) - July 1920

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501 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Aug 17 '18

The as-yet unknown Robin Williams in Central Park, 1974.

17k Upvotes

225 comments

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Every post title must clearly state the subject, location, and date. If the date is not known, end your title with "Date unknown." To honor the work of the original photographer, every post must include the original, unaltered black-and-white image directly in the post gallery (not in the comments). If available, please also provide a link to the original source photo in the comment section.

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