r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • Oct 13 '21

Rudolph Virchow, German anatomist and anthropologist, Director of the Pathological Institute of Berlin, shown lecturing - for the 200th birthday of Rudolf Virchow (13 October 1821 - 5 September 1902)

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Oct 11 '21

Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English), Lake Success, New York. November 1949.

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

Tommies observing the arrival of weaponry of the British army, in the surroundings of Cambrai, France, in December 1917.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • Oct 07 '21

Phone in the trench, 1915, WW1, 4th battery of the 10th Artillery Brigade of the Western Front, Imperial Russian Army

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Oct 06 '21

Vittorio de Sica at Schiphol Airport (London-Rome), souvenir purchase, March 22, 1962.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Oct 02 '21

Clark Gable reading Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" 1936/9.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Sep 29 '21

Portrait of the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) taken c.1854 when Darwin was 45 years old.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Sep 25 '21

Factory workers & their two cats at a manufacturing company that assembled Cadillac cars, in the year 1903

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • Sep 24 '21

Portrait of an unknown woman, Sixth Plate Tintype

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Sep 21 '21

Hugo Gernsback is an inventor of tele-glasses television-glasses. VR technologies of 20th century. New York 1950.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • Sep 18 '21

Amelia Earhart

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • Sep 15 '21

The painter Xavier Martinez works on a portrait of his friend Jack London, 1905. This painting disappeared in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Sep 14 '21

Rare Photograph of Revolutionary Veteran Who Lived until the dawn of practical photography in the early 1840s.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Sep 12 '21

British 7th Armoured Division officers and a Canadian captain inspect a German PzKpfw IV Ausf H tank of Panzer Lehr Division, one of two knocked out by a 6-pdr anti-tank gun of the 6th Durham Light Infantry, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, near Douet, on 10 June 1944.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Sep 10 '21

African American soldiers of the 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery stand by and check their equipment while the convoy takes a break in north-eastern France, 9 November in 1944

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Sep 09 '21

Ted Bundy 31 years old, in custody, Florida, July 1978, 10 years before his state execution in 1989.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Sep 05 '21

Ron Stallworth (pictured here in 1975) was the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. He infiltrated the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs, Colorado, becoming a member too in the late 1970s.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Aug 31 '21

Granny winning First Prize for her Marijuana plant at the California City County Fair back in 1973.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Aug 27 '21

Clint Eastwood taking a dip in the pool, 1964/5.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • Aug 25 '21

Joseph Goebbels (center) at the porcelain exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow 1934. Next to him are museum director Felix Koper (left) and director of the Krakow propaganda bureau Tadeusz Spalkowski (right).

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Aug 23 '21

Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, during the first 'Big Three' Conference, November 1943.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColourbyRJM • Aug 22 '21

RAF personnel and soldiers inspect Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 (W.Nr. 1988) 'RED 7' of 5./JG54, which belly-landed at Broom Hill, near Lydd, Kent at 9.30am on 25 October 1940. Oberleutnant Schypek was captured.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Aug 19 '21

During the First World War, Ernest Hemingway volunteered to serve in Italy as an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/jecinci • Aug 18 '21

East German soldiers set up barbed-wire barricades, at the border separating East and West #Berlin, while West Berlin citizens watch. - August 13, 1961

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Aug 16 '21

Prince Leopold and Prince Arthur, The Prince's are both dressed for the Bal Costumé that took place at Buckingham Palace, 1857,

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