"History In Color": 30 Beautifully Colorized Historical Photographs

[demmiblue]

Samson Beaver, His Wife Leah, And Their Daughter Frances Louise, In Canada In The Year 1907




The O’halloran Sisters — Armed With Poles And Boiling Water, They Fended Off The Officers Evicting Their Family During The Irish Land War, In The Year 1887




The Monumental Love Story Of Richard And Mildred Loving LED To The Historic Supreme Court Case Sweeping Away The Latest Segregation Laws In America.




The Art Painter Claude Monet Is Photographed In His Garden In Giverny, 1899




Group Of Women With Their Automobile Outside The White House, In The Year 1922




Halloween In The Early 1900s




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[John1956PA]

1. Great images! The link offers more fantastic entries. Thanks for posting! n/t

[gldstwmn]

2. These are great. Thanks!

[Brenda]

4. These are fantastic...

Thanks demmiblue! As an artist I tried colorizing some of my black and whites and it was a lot of fun but seeing history come to us in living color is a whole different story. What a great job to have!

[PatSeg]

6. I started colorizing my old family photos

about eight years. When I ran out of family photos, I started colorizing historical figures of all kinds. It is a fascinating hobby watching people from the past come alive. They become more real when you add color.

[Nevilledog]

5. Crap.... That Halloween one is gonna give me nightmares.

TY for these!

[demmiblue]

7. ...

[VGNonly]

8. Yikes!

Looks like KKK on steroids.

[Shipwack]

9. Wow! Great article. I have to wonder, though....

What is the backstory of the women and “their” automobile? In front of the White House, no less… 🤔

[Hekate]

16. There were women's automobile clubs, and these gals are dressed for an outing...

I’d love the backstory, too. I have a wonderful old book from 1909 called The Woman and the Car by Dorothy Levitt. In her photos she’s every inch the Edwardian lady, but she raced cars and gives explicit instructions on how to do one’s own repairs on the road (tip: bring coveralls).

On the whole, I think it’s a matter of having the means and interest, and being unafraid of periodically getting grease under your nails.

[Shipwack]

18. Interesting... Thank you! nt

[LAS14]

10. Thank you!!!!! nt

[Tadpole Raisin]

11. How wonderful this is. Thank you!

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

12. Colorized History subreddit

A lot of these photos come from the Colorized History subreddit, as noted in the article.


https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/

Even if you don’t like Reddit, it’s worth it for that.

[niyad]

13. Great collection. The Indigenous ones were amazing. #2-Sophie Scholl, founder

of the anti-Nazi White Rose Society. Executed by guillotine, age 22. Would have been 100 this year. The WWI german soldier. 3 year old Elvis.

I actually met Ron Smallworth, as I worked with the police auxiliary here back then. But had no idea what a dangerous assignment he had.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Quite a treat. Thanx for posting.

B&W images do nothing for me, unlike so many others.

[Raine]

15. BEAUTIFUL ... color really brings them all to life

makes these people so much more relatable. Thanks so much!

[LT Barclay]

17. My favorite is the first. I recently finished going through a couple of photography collections of

pictures of various North American indigenous tribes and many have stirred debate about being dramatized or trying to tell a romatacized or tragic portrait of the subjects.
But here is just a normal happy family. They are so relatable.