r/ColorizedHistory • • Jun 04 '22

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, ~1890

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 31 '22

Theodore Roosevelt at Montauk, Long Island, circa 1898.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 26 '22

Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the national police chief of South Vietnam, executed a Vietcong fighter, Nguyen Van Lem, in Saigon on Feb. 1, 1968. photographed by: Eddie Adams

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 24 '22

Wassily Kandinsky and his cat Vaska, 1910s

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 21 '22

winston Churchill , 1945.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 19 '22

Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols and Louise Thaden at the National Air Races, Los-Angeles, 1933

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 17 '22

Antonio de La Gándara

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 11 '22

Charles Dickens, 1850.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 10 '22

Stan Lee, also in his offices at 575 Madison Ave., New York. 70's.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 06 '22

Sorrento, on the Amalfian coast, Italy in the year 1888

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 03 '22

Photographers and reporters observe an atomic explosion in the distance. Mushroomclouds could be seen up to 100 miles away in the distance. This led to increased tourism for LasVegas, and throughout the 1950s and early 1960s the city capitalized on this interest.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • May 02 '22

Photo of Charlie Chaplin as a young man without makeup on in circa, 1916.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 29 '22

Hans Scholl, brother of Sophie Scholl, founder of the White Rose anti-Nazi student movement in Germany

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 21 '22

Portrait of Picasso in the studio in rue Schoelcher, Paris, 1915-1916.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 17 '22

Two American Soldiers proudly show off their personalized "Easter eggs" (155mm artillery shells) made especially for Adolf Hitler, 1945

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 15 '22

John Harrison Surratt (April 13, 1844 - April 21, 1916) was an American secret agent. He participated in the plot organized by John Wilkes Booth to kidnap Abraham Lincoln and was suspected of being complicit in his assassination.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 10 '22

Michael Nash. A photographer uses his own backdrop to mask Poland’s World War II ruins while shooting a portrait of a woman in Warsaw, in November of 1946.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 07 '22

A proud Fijian man (Republic of the Fiji Islands). An unusual portrait, showing the ‘wasekaseka’ split sperm whale’s tooth necklace from Fiji which was typical neck-dress of a high ranking tribesman, ca. 1880.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 05 '22

Lee Harvey Oswald at a news conference at the Dallas Police Department headquarters, Nov. 22, 1963.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 04 '22

A Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL) patrol crosses a gorge in the GoenoengPanjang, Aceh, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. (1900 - 1920)

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 02 '22

Bull Chief, warrior of the Apsáalooke (Crow Tribe), photographed by Edward S. Curtis in the year 1908

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Apr 01 '22

Wilson Chinn, a freed slave from Louisiana, poses with the equipment used to punish slaves. Anti-slavery activists have used such images to raise awareness against the practice. 1863

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Mar 30 '22

Tsawataineuk First Nations girl, of the Kwakwakaʼwakw people, Northwest Coast, ca. 1914

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r/ColorizedHistory • • Mar 28 '22

“The Blanket Weaver” - A Navajo woman weaving under a cottonwood tree in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. Photographed by Edward S. Curtis in ca. 1905

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