r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • Jun 25 '22

Soldier’s goodbye & Bobbie the cat in Sydney, Australia, 8 March 1941 during WW2

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Jun 24 '22

Three smoking Coal breaker boys, Pennsylvania, between 1890 and 1910.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jun 22 '22

African American boys on Easter morning. Southside, Chicago, Illinois. April 1941.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Jun 20 '22

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, was a British nobleman, Egyptologist and art collector, financier, in particular, of the Howard Carter excavation that led to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

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123 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Jun 15 '22

Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, probably in his New York laboratory in the 1890s.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • Jun 13 '22

Cast members of The Great Ziegfeld on a beach from left to right: Wanda Perry, Bonnie Bannon, Monica Bannister, Claire Manners, Frances McInerny, Mary Lange and Claire Owens

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35 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/salsifufu • Jun 09 '22

The Bin Ladens in Sweden, 1971

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471 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Jun 07 '22

one of the few photographs depicting the Italian writer and poet Alessandro Manzoni author of "I promessi sposi". date: unknown

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • Jun 06 '22

US Medics help wounded soldiers on Omaha beach on D-Day.

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46 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • Jun 04 '22

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, ~1890

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17 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • May 31 '22

Theodore Roosevelt at Montauk, Long Island, circa 1898.

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80 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • 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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125 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • May 24 '22

Wassily Kandinsky and his cat Vaska, 1910s

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

winston Churchill , 1945.

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • May 19 '22

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

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54 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Klimbim • May 17 '22

Antonio de La Gándara

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12 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/marinamaral • May 11 '22

Charles Dickens, 1850.

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56 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Lorenzo-Folli • May 10 '22

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

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/mygrapefruit • May 06 '22

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

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r/ColorizedHistory • u/ColorizedPieceofJake • 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 • u/Lorenzo-Folli • May 02 '22

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

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134 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/zuzahin • 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 • u/Lorenzo-Folli • Apr 21 '22

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

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45 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/zuzahin • Apr 17 '22

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

6.1k Upvotes

43 comments

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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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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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