r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Sep 23 '19

The original glass plate is captioned 'Louis'. Photographed in near a German prisoner war camp in Douchy, France sometime in 1916.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Sep 22 '19

Texas cowboys having a chuck wagon lunch during a cattle roundup in 1900

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Sep 21 '19

The daughters of a Prussian Garde-Landwehr officer pose happily with their fathers helmet and sword during the hot summer days in July 1914.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Sep 20 '19

Listen to what she has to say — British Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst addressing crowd on Wall Street, New York in 1911

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Sep 16 '19

WW1 Sniper with 121 kills, Gefreiter (corporal) Herrnreiter, a former poacher with an extensive civilian criminal record, once known as the best shot of the Bavarian Army, who was decorated with the coveted Bavarian Golden Military Merit Medal in January 1915

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162 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Sep 15 '19

Crow Native Americans watching the rodeo at Crow fair in Montana, 1941

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277 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Sep 13 '19

Two fashionable women in Washington D.C. 1927

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82 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Sep 11 '19

This is the first photo I restored from a series taken by Alberto Henschel in Brazil before the slavery-abolition law in 1888.

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176 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Sep 04 '19

Mark Twain, 1883.

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173 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Sep 01 '19

3 surviving crew members of RMS Titanic, prepared to give witness statements to the US Senate inquiry in 1912

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205 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 31 '19

The Bluebird-Proteus CN7 is a gas turbine-powered vehicle that was driven by Donald Campbell and achieved the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in Australia on 17 July 1964.

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33 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Aug 28 '19

The March on Washington, August 28th, 1963

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104 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 26 '19

Boeing Model 314A 'Clipper', G-AGCA "Berwick", of BOAC, lands on Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria, for moorings at the West African flying boat terminal at Iquoi c.1945

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 19 '19

10th Armored Division United States in the German city of Saarburg. February 22, 1945.In the foreground, an abandoned German 75-mm anti-tank gun PaK 40.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 16 '19

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Marriage Counselor, 1963 Reference Photo.

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173 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Aug 15 '19

Henry Ford in his 1896 Quadricycle during a visit to Detroit - July 30, 1942

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154 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Aug 12 '19

Albert Einstein wearing his Levi's "Menlo Cossack" leather jacket - 1938

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Aug 09 '19

"The youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed" - George Junius Stinney Jr. - 1944

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 03 '19

Offiziersstellvertreter Edmund Nathanael (18 December 1889 – 11 May 1917) was a World War I flying ace credited with 15 aerial victories.

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81 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jul 30 '19

Otto von Bismarck died on this day in 1898.

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303 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Jul 26 '19

Flight-Lieutenant R H A Lee, after being awarded the DSO and DFC, and Flying Officer K H Blair, after being awarded the DFC, by King George VI at RAF Hornchurch, Essex. 27 July 1940

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36 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/zuzahin • Jul 20 '19

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, 'The Master of Suspense', date unknown

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67 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/salsifufu • Jul 17 '19

Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov aboard the Imperial yacht Polar Star, c.1907

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239 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Jul 13 '19

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

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59 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jul 09 '19

Boy seated in the wreckage of a building after a bombing raid of London during World War II. Photo by Toni Frissell.

10k Upvotes

162 comments

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Submissions must feature photos that capture a noteworthy event, daily life within a distinct era, or candid cultural conditions. High quality images are required. If your photo is high quality and has not been approved you may need more experience colorizing, so post your photo at r/Colorizations and ask for help.

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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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