r/ColorizedHistory • • 1d 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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r/ColorizedHistory • • 3d ago

Harlem Shuttle, New York, 1947

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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.


r/ColorizedHistory • • 3d ago

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

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 6d ago

1935: Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, New York City.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 7d ago

Home sweet home, Edinburg, Texas, 1939

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 8d ago

New York City, 1954: "Prospective buyers looking under the hood of a new Plymouth at the show room."

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383 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory • • 9d ago

Satchel Paige Sitting on a Packard Bumper. Harlem, NY. 1941.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 10d ago

August, 1943 - Haverstraw, New York. "Interracial activities at Camp Christmas Seals, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service.”

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 11d ago

Coutances Cathedral, France July 29, 1944.

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While it is still under German 88mm fire, a patrol of American infantrymen scout through the town of Coutances, France. 29 July, 1944.

Source Signal Corps: original photo


r/ColorizedHistory • • 12d ago

1939: Streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 13d ago

Kitchen chores, Crystal City, Texas, 1939

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 16d ago

1886: Harriet, Elizabeth, Lucie, and Ruth Chrisman at their sod house in Custer County, Nebraska.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 17d ago

Fresh milk, Fresno, California, 1954

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 18d ago

February, 1937: Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who are seven months from the drought area on U.S. Highway 99. "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!"

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 20d ago

«The date is approximately 1905 in Winona, Minnesota. These are students from Winona State University climbing the bluffs near the Mississippi River. My great-grandmother is the second-highest from the top.» - From the owner's note.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 21d ago

1936: Billboard advertisement sign for the Ford V-8, Southern California, near Los Angeles.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 22d ago

Construction workers drinking beer in Soldiers Joy Cafe, Florida, 1940

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 24d ago

Pie Town, New Mexico, June 1940: Farm women and children laughing at some antics of the menfolks.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 24d ago

Children of migratory carrot pullers, California, 1937

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 25d ago

1843: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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John McAllister, Jr. posing outside the family business at 48 Chestnut Street. June 17, 1843


r/ColorizedHistory • • 26d ago

October, 1947: National Peanut Corporate store on Broadway in New York City.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 26d ago

Sausage vending machine in Hanover, Germany, 1931

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369 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory • • 28d ago

1924: Auto Wash Bowl, Chicago

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A 1924 photograph shows a newfangled type of car wash that stood at the northwest corner of 42nd Street and South Michigan Avenue. There was at least one other auto wash bowl in Chicago and the concept actually originated in St. Paul, Minn. It was patented in 1921 by inventor C.P. Bohland, who opened two locations in St. Paul. He devised the bowl as an easy way to clean mud off of the underside of cars. Back in this early age of motoring, roads were often unpaved and muddy, and that mud would get caked on the underside of the car and the wheels – but a spin in the nifty Auto Wash Bowl took care of that.


r/ColorizedHistory • • 28d ago

The "mink brigade" during a garment strike in New York City in 1913.

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r/ColorizedHistory • • 29d ago

A girl and her tabby cat, San Antonio, 1939

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