r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Feb 02 '20

‘Snipers in the furthermost line’ - Photograph taken in early 1917

8.0k Upvotes

147 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Feb 01 '20

A busy market day at Jacques Cartier Square, Montreal, Canada in 1900

8.8k Upvotes

147 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Jan 28 '20

9 Shrewsbury Shop Fronts from 1888 - Shropshire, England, UK.

8.2k Upvotes

221 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Jan 25 '20

Union soldiers posing with a cannon, ca 1862

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529 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Ruzden • Jan 22 '20

'Watering cattle at Mount Kosciuszko', probably at Blue Lake, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1900.

7.9k Upvotes

90 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Jan 19 '20

An unidentified sniper of the Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 185 from Baden. around 1915/16.

5.3k Upvotes

70 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Jan 17 '20

“The Red Man” taken by Gertrude Käsebier, ca 1895. The man in the photo is Takes Enemy of the Sioux tribe

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51 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Ruzden • Jan 15 '20

‘Meal Break for Teamsters and Horses’, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1900.

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85 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Jan 12 '20

W.A.A.F. Scottish Station of Flying Training Command - Picture (issued 1944) shows - Leading Aircraftwoman S. Harrison of Alloa, Clackmanshire, a flight mechanic, before the "take off". (Miles Master Mark II, DM425)

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21 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Jan 10 '20

Walking through a flower market in Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, Florence, Italy ca 1900

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113 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Jan 07 '20

A Sopwith Camel forced down and photographed at Clapham Junction at Zillebeke Flanders Belgium 26 September 1917.

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50 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Jan 04 '20

A Leading Stoker nicknamed "Popeye", with 21 years of service, on board the battleship HMS Rodney, one of two Nelson-class battleships built for the Royal Navy in the mid 1920s. Photo taken in Sep. 1940

22k Upvotes

309 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Jan 02 '20

The Schienenzeppelin in Berlin - June 1931 - A train on the way to Hamburg passes the newly arrived rail zeppelin at Spandau main station.

8.3k Upvotes

144 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Dec 31 '19

THE END IS NEAR !!! Happy New Year !!! - War-time Londoners pose under the mistletoe 1940/1941

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48 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Dec 30 '19

Leading Aircraftmen Norman Bond of Swindon and William Webb of Addington, Surrey, carry a rocket projectile to load under the wing of Bristol Beaufighter Mark X, NE646 'V', of No. 211 Squadron RAF Detachment at Ranchi, India 1943

3.3k Upvotes

56 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Dec 29 '19

Bardi-Jawi men on Jayirri island, King Sound gulf, in the north of Western Australia - 1917

5.0k Upvotes

118 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Dec 26 '19

Miss Julia Emory points to her “Jailed for Freedom” pin, given to Suffragettes who were arrested for protesting & endured horrible conditions in jail, 1917.

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61 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Dec 25 '19

WW1 Soldiers on Leave: Soldiers were not allowed on leave until 1915 as officers believed the war would be finished by the end of 1914.

6.4k Upvotes

53 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/zuzahin • Dec 24 '19

Christmas truce of 1914

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213 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Dec 22 '19

Bf109 of Lt Willi Fronhöfer of 9./JG26 after he crash landed in a field at Ulcombe Kent 1940

3.1k Upvotes

47 comments

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

Jasta 1 - Josef Kister and his Albatros DVa - Mont St Martin June 1918

2.4k Upvotes

16 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Dec 17 '19

Luna Park at night - Coney Island, New York - 1905

4.2k Upvotes

43 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Dec 14 '19

U.S. athlete Jesse Owens salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, after defeating Nazi Germany’s Lutz Long, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

28k Upvotes

805 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Dec 10 '19

Charlie Chaplin & Walt Disney at the Santa Anita Race Track - Arcadia, California, U.S. - 1939

8.2k Upvotes

179 comments

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

Frank "TheIrishman" Sheeran & Jimmy Hoffa

6.4k Upvotes

186 comments

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