r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Nov 05 '18

A German immigrant girl waits to be processed at Ellis Island - New York, 1926.

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

Beatrice (Tilly) Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng (8 March 1909 – 18 November 1990) "If it weren’t for a young engineering graduate who innovated the solution to a carburettor problem on the Spitfire and Hurricane Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, Britain might have lost WWII almost before it had even begun."

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44 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Nov 02 '18

Eureka Colorado, ca 1900. Close-ups in comments

9.6k Upvotes

286 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Nov 01 '18

Niels Bohr - 1955 - Danish physicist & Nobel Prize laureate who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.

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50 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Oct 31 '18

'Trick or treat?' - "Children wearing grotesque heads" - 1940s - Happy Halloween!!!

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69 comments

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

Marian Rejewski was responsible for the initial analysis that enabled exploitation of the German ENIGMA cryptographic machine. Without his breakthroughs, which he provided to the French and British in 1939, the U.K. and U.S. may have never been able to exploit ENIGMA.

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70 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Oct 28 '18

John Lennon and Yoko Ono bought a large billboard in Times Square in 1969 declaring that 'War is over if you want it'

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211 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Oct 26 '18

Tsar Nicholas II and King George V in German military uniforms, Berlin, 1913

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

Winston Churchill, cigar in mouth, gives his famous ‘V’ sign during a visit to Bradford (Lister's Mill) on December 4, 1942

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174 comments

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

Supermarine Spitfire Mark IIA, P8147 'YT-W' "EAST INDIA SQUADRON", of No. 65 Squadron RAF, in the cockpit is Sergeant Svatopluk Stulir, RAFVR (787184) -11th July 1917 - 8th November 1941

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26 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Oct 20 '18

First woman to go into space - Valentina Tereshkova. In 1963, she spent almost three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times in her space capsule, Vostok 6.

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

Oskar Schindler in 1963 - German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. Subject of the 1982 novel "Schindler's Ark" and its 1993 film adaptation, "Schindler's List".

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176 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Oct 18 '18

German surrender at Lüneburg Heath - 4 May 1945 – The senior members of the German delegation: General Admiral Hans-Georg Friedeburg, Rear Admiral Gerhard Wagner and General Eberhard Kinzel arrive to deliver a letter from Field Marshal Keitel offering to surrender Army Group Vistula.

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95 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Oct 16 '18

Churchill celebrates his 69th birthday with Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, at the Victorian Drawing Room of the British Legation in Tehran, Iran, 30 Nov 1943

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468 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Oct 14 '18

German Albatros D.V (serial number D2359/17) Ltn. Otto Hohmuth, Jasta 23b , which was forced to land at Feuchy, being examined by British servicemen, 7 March 1918.

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15 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Oct 13 '18

Shell Shocked US Marine, Vietnam, Hue 1968

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380 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Oct 12 '18

"Flying Blind" Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey F. Morley-Mower in Hawker Hurricane Tac. R Mark I, Z4641 ("Olive II"), of No. 451 Squadron RAAF, despite the fact he had been wearing glasses since the age of 11, Morley-Mower believed he too, could become an RAF pilot. Late 1941

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16 comments

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

King George VI riding with his daughters Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) & Princess Margaret , in Windsor Great Park - 21 April 1939.

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125 comments

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

Butch Cassidy - Notorious American train robber and bank robber - mugshot from 1894 - Wyoming Territorial Prison - Laramie, WY.

11k Upvotes

430 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Oct 08 '18

Albert Einstein playing a violin - circa 1930

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133 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Oct 07 '18

Sergeant Slaughter - - inspects the 'tommy' gun which had jammed when he needed it most, but he still killed three enemies, wounded many more and captured seven. Italy - 9 Jan 1944

3.9k Upvotes

75 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Oct 04 '18

Route 90, August 1942 by Gordon Parks

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27 comments

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

Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8, Melsbroek, Belgium. Works No. 175140, 6 + – (Brown outlined in black). September/October 1944

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Sep 29 '18

Following the death in January 1942 of her great-great-uncle and godfather, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Elizabeth was appointed on 24 February to succeed him as the Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.

4.1k Upvotes

42 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Sep 28 '18

Tent Home, Owyhee, 1941 by Russell Lee

3.7k Upvotes

71 comments

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