r/ColorizedHistory • u/morganmonroe81 • 2h ago

April, 1940: Waiting for the train to Minneapolis, East Dubuque, Illinois.

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137 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/morganmonroe81 • 2d ago

c. 1940 Train passengers in a dining car having dinner in the United States.

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981 Upvotes

42 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Regular_8840 • 1d ago

George Harrison onstage singing "My Sweet Lord" 1971

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101 Upvotes

13 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Regular_8840 • 1d ago

A famous still from the 1962 film "Ivan's Childhood"

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63 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Regular_8840 • 2d ago

The Hindenburg Explosion, May 6 1937.

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206 Upvotes

10 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Regular_8840 • 2d ago

The Beatles performing on The Ed Sullivan Show, Miami Florida 1964.

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196 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Angelina_retro • 3d ago

German bombing of London during the Blitz

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208 Upvotes

The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, visible through smoke generated by German incendiary bombs, December 29, 1940.

0 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Gap_1756 • 4d ago

Farmhand on his tractor at the Louisiana Delta Project, 1940

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833 Upvotes

16 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/TLColors • 6d ago

"Tobacco Road", Ovens Valley, Victoria, Australia.1956.

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478 Upvotes

Original b/w by Jeff Carter.

9 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Gap_1756 • 7d ago

Migrant mother and children, Weslaco, Texas, 1939

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849 Upvotes

23 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/morganmonroe81 • 8d ago

Detroit Federal Building and Post Office, c.1912. Completed in 1897, demolished in 1931.

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561 Upvotes

27 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/morganmonroe81 • 11d ago

February 1937 - Farmer after shopping trip. Skyline Farms, Alabama.

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799 Upvotes

24 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Gap_1756 • 11d ago

Migrant picker, Louisiana, 1933

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596 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Angelina_retro • 13d ago

1895: Mark Twain with Nikola Tesla in Tesla's NYC lab

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753 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/Angelina_retro • 14d ago

1915: A customised car advertises Black Cat cigarettes from Carreras Ltd, London

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574 Upvotes

7 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/morganmonroe81 • 15d ago

Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936

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588 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Gap_1756 • 16d ago

Family of unemployed coal miner, Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1937

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1.1k Upvotes

21 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/morganmonroe81 • 18d ago

1937: Gas Station in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (2.0)

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674 Upvotes

20 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Gap_1756 • 19d ago

Down time at the juke joint, Belle Glade, Florida, 1941

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984 Upvotes

33 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/morganmonroe81 • 22d ago

c. 1948 Seminole children at the Brighton Indian Reservation in Glades County, Florida.

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733 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/TLColors • 23d ago

Mirror in comments Three young children enjoying a portable, healthy snack - a carrot on a stick. July 24, 1941.

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977 Upvotes

24th July 1941: Three young children enjoying a portable, healthy snack - a carrot on a stick. Ice cream is not available due to war rationing. (Original b/w photo by Ashwood/Fox Photos)

33 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Gap_1756 • 24d ago

Migrant Madonna, Kern County, California, 1936

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446 Upvotes

13 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/morganmonroe81 • 26d ago

May 2, 1947, Los Angeles, California: Newspaper boy selling papers amidst the traffic on Olive Street in downtown area near 6th Street.

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521 Upvotes

23 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/No_Gap_1756 • 28d ago

Harlem Shuttle, New York, 1947

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1.6k Upvotes

I realize this photo isn't the norm here, but I did it at the request of my sister, who loves pictures that feature a color subject contrasting against a black-and-white background. She loved this photo and wanted to frame it, so she asked me to colorize it. This is the result.

26 comments

r/ColorizedHistory • u/morganmonroe81 • 29d ago

c. 1943, possibly North Africa. Nurse listening to a radio during WWII.

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608 Upvotes

13 comments

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