65 Beautifully Colorized Historical Photos of the Past
Did you know?
1. The first person who managed to make a “photographic” snapshot constant, that is to fix the image was Joseph Niepce. The very first snapshot in the history of photography is considered “view from the window,” dated 1826. The exposure of the shot lasted 8 Hours.
4. Camera Obscura, which became the prototype of the modern camera, is used up to this day for the production of integrated circuits and as a special film camera.
5. The first color photograph was taken in 1861 by James Maxwell, the British physicist.
6. Appearance of the first plates for color photography dated back to 1904, produced by the company “Lumiere”.
7. The first aerial photography was carried out by French inventor Turnache in 1858. He shot Paris from the balloon
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This collection features people like Anne Frank, Abraham Lincoln, Louis Armstrong, Clint Eastwood, Albert Einstein and many other famous faces. Looking back at these colorized history, there is something quite eerie about these Photographs because they look like they have been taken in the present time.65 Beautiful Colorized Historical Photos of the Past
Man rowing on the Titanic
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Anne Frank
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Three Eagles, a Nez Perce Warrior. Taken by Edward S. Curtis in 1910
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Queen Victoria with all of her children and grandchildren
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Abraham Lincoln
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Boy Drinking from ‘colored’ water cooler
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Claude Monet in 1923
Brigadier General and actor Jimmy Stewart
 Pablo Picasso
Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939
 Times Square 1947
Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
Hellen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918
Girls delivering ice 1918
Burger Flipper 1938
Winston Churchill 1941
Madison Square Park New York City around 1900
 Marilyn Monroe
American Poet Walt Whitman, 1868
Hindenburg Blimp crash
British Soldiers Returning from the front in 1939
Joan Crawford on the set of Letty Lynton, 1932
Country store in July 1939. Gordonton, North Carolina
Mark Twain in 1900
Albert Einstein on a Long Island beach in 1939
Audrey Hepburn
Union Soldiers taking a break 1863
Charles Darwin
World War 2 soldiers on Easter
Clint Eastwood, 1962
W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923
Charlie Chaplin at 27 years old in 1916
Elizabeth Taylor in 1956
Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953
Louis Armstrong practicing backstage in 1946
Red Hawk of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on horseback, 1905
Babe Ruth’s 1920 MLB debut
A Washington, D.C. filling station in 1924
Boys buying flowers in 1908
An Oklahoman farmer during the great dust bowl in 1939
Titanic
Louis Armstrong plays to his wife, Lucille, in Cairo, Egypt 1961
Brooklyn Bridge in 1904
Two Boxers after a fight
1920s Australian mugshots from the New South Wales Police Dept
 Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield
Brothers Robert Kennedy, Edward “Ted” Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy outside the Oval Office.
Clint Eastwood working on his 1958 Jag XK 120 in 1960
Cornell Rowing Team 1907
View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864
Baltimore Slums, 1938
Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933
Henry Ford, 1919
An RAF pilot getting a haircut while reading a book between missions.
Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife 1939
Alfred Hitchcock
