20 Historice Black & White Photos colorized!

[Big Empty]

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20 Historic Black and White Photos Colorized


1. Abandoned boy holding
a stuffed toy animal. London 1945


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/abandoned-boy-holding-a-stuffed-toy-animal.jpg (http://valdigtmycketfarg.wordpress.com/)

Original Photograph by Toni Frissell (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awpnp6/frissell_coll.html)
Colorized by HansLucifer (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1bmhyk/abandoned_boy_holding_a_stuffed_toy_animal_london/) | valdigtmycketfarg.wordpress.com (http://valdigtmycketfarg.wordpress.com/)

http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/abandoned-boy-holding-a-stuffed-toy-animal_2.jpg (http://valdigtmycketfarg.wordpress.com/)

2. Hindenburg Disaster – May 6, 1937


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/hindenburg-disaster-1937-dana-keller.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/HistoryInColor)

Colorized by Dana Keller (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1dpa55/hindenburg_disaster_1937_1500_1094/) | History in Color on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/HistoryInColor)




3. Japanese Archers circa 1860


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/kyudoka-japanese-archers-c1860-photo-chopshop.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/photochopshop)

Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd (photojacker on Reddit) (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1gzi8d/ky%C5%ABd%C5%8Dka_%E5%BC%93%E9%81%93%E5%AE%B6_japa nese_archers_c1860_1800x1440/) | Photo Chopshop on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photochopshop)


Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd (photojacker on Reddit) (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1gzi8d/ky%C5%ABd%C5%8Dka_%E5%BC%93%E9%81%93%E5%AE%B6_japa nese_archers_c1860_1800x1440/) | Photo Chopshop on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photochopshop)


4. View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee
During the Civil War, 1864


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/view-from-capitol-in-nashville-tennessee-during-the-civil-war-in-1864-sanna-dullaway.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/pages/F%C3%B6rr-i-F%C3%A4rg-Past-In-Color/116785208426507)

Colorized by Sanna Dullaway (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1hn75u/view_from_capitol_in_nashville_tennessee_during/) | forrifarg.se (http://forrifarg.se/?lang=en) | Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/F%C3%B6rr-i-F%C3%A4rg-Past-In-Color/116785208426507) | Prints available (http://www.redbubble.com/people/sannadullaway/works/10536914-view-from-capitol-in-nashville-tennessee-during-the-civil-war-1864)




5. Unemployed lumber worker, circa 1939


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/unemployed-lumber-worker-ca.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorizedhistory/430760113645337)

Colorized by zuzahin on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/186ljt/unemployed_lumber_worker_ca_1939/) | Website (http://zuzahgaming.minus.com/) | Colorizedhistory on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorizedhistory/430760113645337)




6. Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/auto-wreck-in-washington-d.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/pages/F%C3%B6rr-i-F%C3%A4rg-Past-In-Color/116785208426507)

Colorized by Sanna Dullaway (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1exj6z/auto_wreck_in_washington_dc_1921/) | forrifarg.se (http://forrifarg.se/?lang=en) | Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/F%C3%B6rr-i-F%C3%A4rg-Past-In-Color/116785208426507)


7. Big Jay McNeely driving the crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/trumpet-traquea.jpg (http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1hiha4/in_response_to_mothafuckintrumpet_i_colorized_the/)

Original Photograph by Bob Willoughby (http://www.willoughbyphotos.com/) | Prints available (http://www.willoughbyphotos.com/)
Colorized by traquea on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1hiha4/in_response_to_mothafuckintrumpet_i_colorized_the/)


Photograph by Bob Willoughby (http://www.willoughbyphotos.com/) | Prints available (http://www.willoughbyphotos.com/)


8. Albert Einstein, Summer 1939
Nassau Point, Long Island, NY


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/albert-einstein-summer-1939-nassau-point-long-island-ny-edvos.jpg (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1hfwdq/albert_einstein_summer_1939_nassau_point_long/)

Colorized by Edvos on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1hfwdq/albert_einstein_summer_1939_nassau_point_long/) | Paul Edwards (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=648176566)


Colorized by Edvos on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1hfwdq/albert_einstein_summer_1939_nassau_point_long/) | Paul Edwards (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=648176566)


9. Audrey Hepburn


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/audrey-hepburn-dana-keller.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/HistoryInColor)

Colorized by Dana Keller (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1d6fgt/audrey_1800_2381/) | History in Color on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/HistoryInColor)


10. ‘Old Gold’, Country store, 1939


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/old-gold-country-store-1939-photo-chopshop.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/photochopshop)

Original Photograph by Dorothea Lange (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000003442/PP/)
Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd (photojacker on Reddit) (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1bjpk3/old_gold_country_store_1939_1400x1000/) | Photo Chopshop on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photochopshop)


Original Photograph by Dorothea Lange (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000003442/PP/)
Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd (photojacker on Reddit) (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1bjpk3/old_gold_country_store_1939_1400x1000/) | Photo Chopshop on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photochopshop)


11. Joseph Goebbels scowling at photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after finding out he’s Jewish, 1933


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/joseph-goebbels-scowling-at-photographer-albert-eisenstaedt-after-finding-out-hes-jewish-ca.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorizedhistory/430760113645337)

Original Photograph by Time & Life Pictures (http://life.time.com/history/goebbels-in-geneva-1933-behind-a-classic-alfred-eisenstaedt-photo/#1)
Colorized by zuzahin on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1k8wqg/joseph_goebbels_scowling_at_photographer_albert/) | Website (http://zuzahgaming.minus.com/) | Colorizedhistory on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorizedhistory/430760113645337)


Photograph by Time & Life Pictures (http://life.time.com/history/goebbels-in-geneva-1933-behind-a-classic-alfred-eisenstaedt-photo/#1)


12. Nikola Tesla, 1893


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nikola-tesla-1893-dana-keller.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/HistoryInColor)

Original Photograph by Napoleon Sarony (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Sarony)
Colorized by Dana Keller (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1dkhom/nikola_tesla_1893_940_1260/) | History in Color on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/HistoryInColor)


13. W.H. Murphy and his associate demonstrating their bulletproof vest on October 13, 1923


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/w-h.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorizedhistory/430760113645337)

Original Photograph by National Photo Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Testing_bulletproof_vest_1923.jpg)
Colorized by zuzahin on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1bswe6/wh_murphy_and_his_associate_demonstrating_their/) | Website (http://zuzahgaming.minus.com/) | Colorizedhistory on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorizedhistory/430760113645337)


Photograph by National Photo Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Testing_bulletproof_vest_1923.jpg)


14. Young boy in Baltimore slum area, July 1938


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/baltimore-1938-photo-chopshop.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/photochopshop)

Original Photograph by John Vachon (http://www.shorpy.com/node/14729)
Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd (photojacker on Reddit) (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/199vy3/baltimore_1938/) | Photo Chopshop on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photochopshop)


Original Photograph by John Vachon (http://www.shorpy.com/node/14729) | Prints available @ Shorpy.com (http://www.shorpy.com/node/14729)
Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd (photojacker on Reddit) (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/199vy3/baltimore_1938/) | Photo Chopshop on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photochopshop)


15. British troops cheerfully board their train for the first stage of their trip to the western front – England, September 20, 1939


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/british-troops-cheerfully-board-their-train-for-the-first-stage-of-their-trip-to-the-western-front-england-september-20-1939-benafleckisanokactor.jpg (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1gchpj/british_troops_cheerfully_board_their_train_for/)

Colorized by BenAfleckIsAnOkActor on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1gchpj/british_troops_cheerfully_board_their_train_for/)


16. Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/oscar-ii-king-of-sweden-and-norway-year-1880-sanna-dullaway.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/pages/F%C3%B6rr-i-F%C3%A4rg-Past-In-Color/116785208426507)

Colorized by Sanna Dullaway (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1egvil/oscar_ii_king_of_sweden_and_norway_year_1880/) | forrifarg.se (http://forrifarg.se/?lang=en) | Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/F%C3%B6rr-i-F%C3%A4rg-Past-In-Color/116785208426507)


17. Walt Whitman, 1887


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/walt-whitman-1887-dana-keller.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/HistoryInColor)

Colorized by Dana Keller (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1g4n7i/walt_whitman_1887/) | History in Color on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/HistoryInColor)




18. Mark Twain in the garden, circa 1900


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/mark-twain-in-the-garden-ca.jpg (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorizedhistory/430760113645337)

Colorized by zuzahin on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1e2ibl/mark_twain_in_the_garden_ca_1900/) | Website (http://zuzahgaming.minus.com/) | Colorizedhistory on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorizedhistory/430760113645337)


19. Charlie Chaplin at the age of 27, 1916


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/charlie-chaplin-at-the-age-of-27-1916-affleckokactor.jpg (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1i8spb/charlie_chaplin_at_the_age_of_27_1916_620x807/)

Colorized by BenAfleckIsAnOkActor on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1i8spb/charlie_chaplin_at_the_age_of_27_1916_620x807/)


20. Elizabeth Taylor – Giant (1956 film)


http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/elizabeth-taylor-giant-malakon.jpg (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1d7s3v/elizabeth_taylor_giant/)

Original Photograph by Frank Worth Photo (http://frankworthphoto.com/) | Prints available (http://frankworthphoto.com/store/products/elizabeth-taylor-classic-portrait-set-of-giant-1955/)
Colorized by malakon on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/1d7s3v/elizabeth_taylor_giant/)


Photograph by Frank Worth Photo (http://frankworthphoto.com/) | Prints available (http://frankworthphoto.com/store/products/elizabeth-taylor-classic-portrait-set-of-giant-1955/)



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Comments

[Big Empty]

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[RD2191]

The balls on the guy getting shot in 13. :lol

[Buddy Mignon]

The balls on the guy getting shot in 13. :lol

No shit... that caught my eye too.

[Infinite_limit]

Cool sight kiddo

[DPG21920]

3 things:

1) Audrey Hepburn was just a stunningly beautiful woman.

2) That picture of the boy in the slum is just unreal. True poverty.

3) That picture of Charlie Chaplin is really, really cool.

[DJR210]

Good shit..

[DMC]

Einstein, Tesla, Twain, Whitman... fantastic. The little boy breaks my heart.

[mrsmaalox]

Oh man, Charlie Chaplin! All the photos are stunning. But I take issue with Elizabeth Taylor's green eyes----she was famous for her violet eyes.

[DD]

Pretty cool stuff. Looks like Zac Efron in pic #5 tbh

[Fpoonsie]

Incredible.

[Spur-Addict]

Avante is in the background of one of these photos.

[TE]

Amazing...

[CuckingFunt]

I prefer the black & white versions.

[Big Empty]

Avante (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=33483) is in the background of one of these photos.
:lol

[The Gemini Method]

I like how the one unemployed lumber worker had his SSN tatted on his arm. Avante was in more than one picture to be honest...the liquor store one with the brothers chillin and the one with Big Jay McNeely getting down. Had to laugh at the Goebbels one when he finds out he has the Juden blood in him--like the majority of the bitch made Nazis did.

[Gervin44Silas13]

where did these pics come from? is there a website?

[The Gemini Method]

Probably at the bottom of the pages...

[Blake]

Audrey has that cute but quirky almost crazy look to her.

Liz Taylor is slutty hot

Einstein has girl legs.

outstanding pics.

[The Gemini Method]

Audrey has that cute but quirky almost crazy look to her.

Liz Taylor is slutty hot

Einstein has girl legs.

outstanding pics.

Yeah, Elizabeth at that age looks like a whole lotta fun, yo.

[cantthinkofanything]

I prefer the black & white versions.

I think I agree with this. The pics are cool but there is something strange about seeing them in color. Can't really put my finger on it. Maybe it's because I know they were originally black and white.
But something looks staged or off. They somehow look like impossible re-creations. Not all of them...

[The Gemini Method]

I think I agree with this. The pics are cool but there is something strange about seeing them in color. Can't really put my finger on it. Maybe it's because I know they were originally black and white.
But something looks staged or off. They somehow look like impossible re-creations. Not all of them...

I'm guessing it also has to do with the lore of history. Like when we see them colored, we lose the sense of mystique and glamour of a bygone era. It doesn't hold the nostalgia factor to it and so it takes away some or most of the importance of the people pictured.

[cantthinkofanything]

I'm guessing it also has to do with the lore of history. Like when we see them colored, we lose the sense of mystique and glamour of a bygone era. It doesn't hold the nostalgia factor to it and so it takes away some or most of the importance of the people pictured.

maybe...

seems like my mind is telling me that the pics are impossible yet I know they are real

The archers in particular.

But even some of the ones that seem like the would be easy to recreate today...like the boy on the steps, the guys at the store, the car wreck...I'm thinking it would be near impossible to even come close

[The Gemini Method]

maybe...

seems like my mind is telling me that the pics are impossible yet I know they are real

The archers in particular.

But even some of the ones that seem like the would be easy to recreate today...like the boy on the steps, the guys at the store, the car wreck...I'm thinking it would be near impossible to even come close

True. The car wreck is actually my personal favorite. Just people standing around waiting for AAA. ;)

[Blake]

I think the people are standing there just freaking out that there's a car wreck. Like they hadn't seen one before.

[m>s]

more good historic photos colorized:

http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/imgcache/11580.png

http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/05_31-46b.jpg?w=729

https://juventudcomunistanl.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/tercer_reich_color_manifestacion_2.jpg

[ChumpDumper]

Are there colorized pictures of Hitler hiding in his bunker?

[The Gemini Method]

Are there colorized pictures of how Dresden had that awesome glow? Or, maybe at the moment the Soviets blew up that Nazi sign in Berlin?

[m>s]

Are there colorized pictures of how Dresden had that awesome glow?
stop applauding war crimes you hypocrite

inb4 "muh holocaust"

except dresden actually happened

[The Gemini Method]

stop applauding war crimes you hypocrite

inb4 "muh holocaust"

except dresden actually happened What? All I want to see is houses burning, ya fucktard.

[m>s]

and all i want to see is you hanging from a rope

fuck off bitch

[ChumpDumper]

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/66/23/6a/66236a0a9303c1ed010d0819fbdc1aec.jpg

[m>s]

^jew identification check

off to the labor camps he goes

[ChumpDumper]

^jew identification check

off to the labor camps he goesIt's a Nazi surrendering to an American soldier.

[baseline bum]

#10 makes me think of

_v2exWrsGOc

[baseline bum]

Why did bitches have short hair in the 20s? Shit's terrible

http://i.imgur.com/2UKausJ.jpg

[The Gemini Method]

Why did bitches have short hair in the 20s? Shit's terrible

http://i.imgur.com/2UKausJ.jpg

Don't lie Baseline--you'd bang on 'em hard bruh. Short hair was seen as all the rage as it was sported by the Hollywood types of those days. Also, long hair was seen as a vestige of the poor and those who cannot afford a hairstyling.

[baseline bum]

Don't lie Baseline--you'd bang on 'em hard bruh. Short hair was seen as all the rage as it was sported by the Hollywood types of those days. Also, long hair was seen as a vestige of the poor and those who cannot afford a hairstyling.

Of course I'd fuck those bitches. Only pussy not worth hitting is fat bitches and black bitches tbh.

[baseline bum]

GOAT President

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[baseline bum]

CROFL

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[baseline bum]

Little Rock, 1959

http://i.imgur.com/QclLi47.jpg

[xmas1997]

CROFL

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Perfect!

[Big Empty]

[QUOTE=baseline bum;7523335]Little Rock, 1959

http://i.imgur.com/QclLi47.jpg[/QUOTEi think all these pics are super cool in color

[SnakeBoy]

2) That picture of the boy in the slum is just unreal. True poverty.



Meh...just another confused white boy smoking a blunt wearing baggy pants with holes cut in them.

[The Gemini Method]

Of course I'd fuck those bitches. Only pussy not worth hitting is fat bitches and black bitches tbh.

You wouldn't tax Beyoncé or Rihanna?

[baseline bum]

You wouldn't tax Beyoncé or Rihanna?

There are exceptions

[The Gemini Method]

There are exceptions

Gotcha. Thought you were one of those stringent non-black fuckin folk.

[Franklin]

https://sp2.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608052350116235206&pid=15.1