Realistically colorized historical photos

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Realistically colorized historical photos make the past seem incredibly real [36 pictures] | 22 Words

Over the last couple years, an increasingly popular trend online has been to create and share colorized photos from history. Artists such as[URL='http://dynamichrome.com/']Jordan Lloyd, Dana KellerandSanna Dullawaytake intriguing old black-and-white photos and bring them to life with color as if they’d been taken only yesterday.

Here are some examples…

Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife, circa 1939

Testing the Hydrogen Bomb

London, 1945

Hindenburg Disaster, 1937

Japanese Archers, circa 1860

View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864

Audrey Hepburn

Albert Einstein in Long Island, 1939

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

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Baltimore Slums, 1938


British Troops Board Their Train for the Front, 1939


Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880


Walt Whitman, 1887


Mark Twain, circa 1900


Charlie Chaplin, 1916



Elizabeth Taylor, 1956


Old Gold Country store, 1939


Washington D. C., 1921


Charles Darwin, 1874

 

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Abraham Lincoln, 1865


Theodore Roosevelt


Louisville, Kentucky, 1937


Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953


Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation, 1963


Anne Frank, 1942


Nicola Tesla


Kissing the War Goodbye, 1945

 

[EasyNow]

Really ... Mindblowing

 

[Anubis]

Beautiful....a bit weird as it challenges a sub-conscious perception that everything was black and white and everyone saw black and white back then!

 

[Juice]

One small correction...the bomb test was a fission....not H-bomb.