These Colorized Photos From The Past Will Blow You Away !

Until the 1960s, color photography was extremely rare,

and so when we think about history prior to that time,
we often envision it in black and white.                       

Today’s technology now enables us to “colorize” historical photos,
giving us our only chance at seeing what the world
really looked like back then.

And it was truly spectacular .

Take a trip back in time through these photos below.

 

It’s quite incredible to see Abraham Lincoln
and Albert Einstein in living color.

President Lincoln with Major General McClernand
and Allan Pinkerton at Antietam in 1862

 

Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels
scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933

 

Audrey Hepburn

 

Mark Twain in 1900

 

Charlie Chaplin at 27 years old in 1916

 

Claude Monet in 1923

Brigadier General and actor Jimmy Stewart.
Stewart flew 20 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe,
and even flew one mission during Vietnam.

 

Pablo Picasso

 

Elizabeth Taylor in 1956

 

Alfred Hitchcock

 

Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953

 

Charles Darwin

 

Clint Eastwood, 1962

 

Hindenburg Blimp crash

 

British Soldiers Returning from the front in 1939

 

Samurai Training 1860

 

Winston Churchill, 1941

 

Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife 1939

 

1920s Australian mugshots from the New South Wales Police Dept

 

Marilyn Monroe

 

Joan Crawford on the set of Letty Lynton, 1932

 

An RAF pilot getting a haircut while reading a book between missions

 

Albert Einstein, 1921

 

Babe Ruth’s 1920 MLB debut

 

Clint Eastwood working on his 1958 Jag XK 120 in 1960

 

View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864

 

Baltimore Slums, 1938

 

 

American Poet Walt Whitman, 1868

 

Albert Einstein on a Long Island beach in 1939

 

W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923

 

A car crash in Washington D.C. around 1921

 

Louis Armstrong practicing backstage in 1946

 

Girls delivering ice, 1918

 

Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939. Photo taken
right after is famous retirement speech.

 

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He would pass away just two years later from ALS.

 

Times Square 1947
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Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963, being transported to questioning before
his murder trial for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

 

Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918

 

 

Burger Flipper 1938

 

 

 

Madison Square Park New York City around 1900

 

 

 

Country store in July 1939 Gordonton, North Carolina

 

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Union Soldiers taking a break 1863

​Geoge Custer with dog.​

 

 

WWII soldiers on Easter

 

 

Red Hawk of the Oglala Tribe on horseback 1905

 

 

 

 

A Washington, D. C. filling station in 1924

 

 

Boys buying flowers in 1908

An Oklahoman farmer during the great dust bowl in 1939

Louis Armstrong plays to his wife, Lucille, in Cairo, Egypt 1961

Brooklyn Bridge in 1904

Two Boxers after a fight

 

 

 

Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield

 

 

Brothers Robert Kennedy, Edward “Ted” Kennedy,
and John F. Kennedy outside the Oval Office.

 

Cornell Rowing Team 1907

 

 

 

 

Henry Ford, 1919