20 Historic B&W Pictures Restored In Colour (Part IV)
The past was full of monumental events and heroic people, but monochrome pictures make it harder to imagine as “real”. That’s where photo colorization comes in. Using tools like Photoshop and sourcing colors from historical descriptions, skilled workers make the images seem closer to us through the addition of color. Color sourcing is easier for military equipment, as armies are quite stringent about recording the details of their gear, and collectors abound.
The shots seen here have been collected from ColorizedHistory subreddit, where people and sometimes companies interested in the craft post the fruits of their labor. I’m ever so thankful for their efforts! Seeing these pictures in color, I feel much closer in time to these events.
See the previous parts here , here and here .
More info: ColorizedHistory (h/t: buzzfeed )
Yvonne (13) and Alexander (12) Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn take drink and smoke on yacht near Majorca.
Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner, taken in February 1865
Adolf Hitler, Along with Mussolini’s son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano (to Hitler’s right), and Joachim von Ribbentrop, attend a NSDAP (Nazi Party) rally, some time in the 1930s.
An Ojibwe Native American spearfishing, Minnesota, 1908.
Soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, 15 October 1941.
Times Square, D-Day, 1944.
Louis and Lucille Armstrong at the Sphinx, Jan. 28, 1961.
A young John F. Kennedy immediately after his graduation from Harvard, in the summer of 1940.
Coney Island, circa 1900–1910.
Boxing match aboard the U.S.S. New York, July 3, 1899.
Post officers show off their brand-new “Autopeds” scooters, Washington, D.C., 1917.
Captain Walter “Waddy” Young and his crew pose in front of their caricatures on their B-29 Superfortress, Nov. 24, 1944.
Two U.S. soldiers of C Company, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, seek shelter behind an M-4 Sherman tank at Geich, Germany, on Dec. 11, 1944.
A group of bootblacks gather around an old Civil War veteran in Pennsylvania, 1935.
Observer on Iwo Jima, February 1945.
Performer Sarah Vaughan, circa 1946.
Aircraft of the Imperial Airways refueling at Samakh, October, 1931.
Children watch as their neighborhood is bombed in Minsk, Belorussia. The bombing was part of Operation Barbarossa. June, 1941.
A farmer’s son playing on one of the large soil drifts of the “Dust Bowl”. Liberal, Kansas. March, 1936.
The March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963.
A young man flipping burgers in Crowley, Louisiana, October 1938.
Daredevil Jammie Reynolds in 1917.
Martynas Klimas
Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.
