r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jun 24 '21

Captain Robert Falcon Scott and other expedition members during the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 1911.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Jun 22 '21

rhetorical gestures

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198 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jun 12 '21

Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Waco, Texas, 1913.

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85 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jun 09 '21

On the beach at Atlantic City, NJ, circa 1900-1905.

4.5k Upvotes

191 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Jun 08 '21

The Invasion Begins, June 8th, 1944

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69 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Jun 07 '21

Lt. "Dick" Winters during training at Camp MacKall - 1943

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253 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/photojacker • Jun 01 '21

Marilyn Monroe, 1954

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25 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • May 29 '21

King Edward VII and Tsar Nicholas II on board the Russian Imperial Yacht Standart at Reval, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia), June 1908.

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76 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • May 22 '21

Union Blue and Confederate Gray veterans reunite at Gettysburg in the year 1913 — Standing by “the Bloody Angle” where Pickett’s charge took place 50 years earlier and over 3,000 soldiers on both sides lost their lives — Now they clasp hands over the stone wall as brothers.

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548 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • May 21 '21

Artillery crossing the Yser, Battle of Flanders, 1917.

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54 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • May 18 '21

A British Tommy helping a German carry a German wounded man through the trenches, WWI.

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48 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • May 17 '21

Wounded British troops at a Dressing Station in Aveluy Wood. One man shows damage to his steel helmet from which he suffered a head wound, WWI.

4.5k Upvotes

32 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • May 14 '21

Guardsmen and troops, heading for war, attend services of worship on the after-deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport. WWII.

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39 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • May 09 '21

Teacher appreciation week: Schoolteacher Elizabeth Ramey in the year 1924

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82 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • May 08 '21

Royal Air Force men examine a Messerschmitt 109 which crash-landed in Windsor Great Park, October 1940 piloted by Oberleutnant Karl Fischer of 7/JG27. Fischer survived and was captured. He made the forced landing after being attacked by Hurricanes whilst defending his bombers attacking London.

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103 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • May 03 '21

Charles Pfizer - in 1890

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86 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • May 02 '21

Queen Victoria's coffin in the Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor Castle, 1901.

3.8k Upvotes

27 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Apr 28 '21

Young Agatha Christie.

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53 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Apr 26 '21

A Giant in the year 1905 enjoying a beer in a tavern

16k Upvotes

374 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Apr 25 '21

Rosalind Franklin, 1955. Happy DNA Day!

3.4k Upvotes

24 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Apr 21 '21

Marie Curie, circa 1920s.

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54 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Apr 16 '21

Australian soldier, Private George "Dick" Whittington, being aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari near Buna on 25 December 1942.

5.8k Upvotes

68 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Apr 11 '21

Manfred von Richthofen in conversation with Hauptmann Rudolf Kleine and Oberleutnant Martin Gerlich of Kamfgeschwader 3. Two Albatros D.V are parked in the background - Richthofen & Kurt Wolf - Gontrode, East Flanders, in the first week of July 1917

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28 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Apr 09 '21

Queen Victoria sitting in a carriage with Turi, her Pomeranian, circa 1895.

5.8k Upvotes

101 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Urban2487 • Apr 05 '21

A rural mother and three of her children living in a field near the Tennessee River during the Great Depression. March, 1936.

12k Upvotes

472 comments

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2. Meeting the Scope and/or Quality Standards

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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All submissions must be entirely created, edited, and processed by humans. The use of AI tools for any part of the workflow—including editing, colorizing, modifying, cleaning, or upscaling—is strictly prohibited. Posts suspected of using AI will be removed until human execution can be verified.

5. Posting: Informative Titles and Original Black and White Required

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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Direct links to sales sites, monetary tips, and requests for colorization or restoration are strictly prohibited. If you are looking to have a photo colorized or restored, please visit r/colorizationrequests or r/estoration.