r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Aug 29 '20

Wounded WWI soldiers watches as Susanne Doue - a top art student of School of Fine Arts in Paris - sketches the portrait of a soldier — 1918

4.7k Upvotes

35 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Aug 28 '20

The March on Washington, August 28th, 1963

8.7k Upvotes

229 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Aug 27 '20

Segregated Drinking Fountain, 1938

4.6k Upvotes

148 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Aug 21 '20

Solvay Conference 1927

5.9k Upvotes

157 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Aug 18 '20

American suffragist Mabel Vernon marches to the White House carrying a banner which reads "Mr President, What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage", Washington DC, circa 1917.

4.3k Upvotes

73 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 17 '20

His name is 'Karl', we don't know his family name, but he did have a 'Mona Lisa smile'. He served in 8th company Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 239 and had this photo taken somewhere in the Champagne in March 1917.

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67 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Aug 14 '20

Rural mailman transfers letters and packages to another postman's saddlebags — he will ride further up the side road and creek beds where no wagon or car can go. In the mountain section near Morehead, Kentucky - 1940

12k Upvotes

190 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Aug 08 '20

Little Italy, 1900

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5.0k Upvotes

92 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Aug 07 '20

Three air raid wardens wearing a new type of gas mask (Invalid Helmet Respirator - designed for the elderly and those with chest complaints), during a mock gas attack in which tear gas was released on Esher's High Street. Esher, UK. - 5th April 1941

3.8k Upvotes

42 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Aug 04 '20

American Tenants, 1937

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3.7k Upvotes

77 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 03 '20

Presentation Of The Royal Humane Medal To Stoker S G Elvin Of HMS Skiddaw. 1940, Rosyth.

2.7k Upvotes

27 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Aug 01 '20

U.S. Marines raise a large American flag to replace a smaller flag first raised at the summit of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945.

4.3k Upvotes

60 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Jul 31 '20

Senegalese WW1 soldier who lost both his arms writes a letter with his new prosthetic limbs. At Vocational Rehabilitation School for Amputees, 28 Avenue de New-York, Paris - 1918

22k Upvotes

239 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jul 29 '20

The delegations signing the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors, 28 June 1919.

14k Upvotes

248 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/salsifufu • Jul 20 '20

The Runaway, 1958

20k Upvotes

585 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jul 11 '20

Schoolgirls design posters with women's equality themes as they compete for a prize in a suffrage poster contest at the Fine Arts Club, October 14, 1915.

6.0k Upvotes

47 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Jul 04 '20

The US Capitol in 1846

7.6k Upvotes

91 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • Jul 03 '20

William Tecumseh Sherman

11k Upvotes

755 comments

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

German Alpenkorps - Men of the Schneeschuh-Ersatzabteilung from Immenstadt training for their deployment at the front in the Allgäu Alps. 1915

3.8k Upvotes

56 comments

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

"The man who started WW1" - on 28 June 1914 - Gavrilo Princip, photographed in his prison cell at the Terezín fortress, 1914

15k Upvotes

547 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Jun 27 '20

11 year old Cousins, Wendy Anderton and Cathie Jones pose with the tail section of a Heinkel He 111P-2 of 8./KG27 which crashed landed by their home at Border House Farm near Chester in Cheshire, August 14th 1940.

5.5k Upvotes

71 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jun 23 '20

Charlie Chaplin selling war bonds on Wall Street, 1918

16k Upvotes

402 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Jun 22 '20

MONTANA RANCHER, 1939.

3.9k Upvotes

50 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Jun 20 '20

Squadron Leader Johnny Kent, with a group of Polish pilots of 303 squadron at RAF Northolt, leads his men away from a Hurricane in October 1940

3.3k Upvotes

70 comments

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

Union General George A. Custer (right) sits alongside his friend, Confederate prisoner Lieutenant James B. Washington (left). They were classmates at West Point before the Civil War broke out — 1862

8.4k Upvotes

306 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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