We often think of history in black and white, quite literally. And that’s because most very old photographs are indeed monochrome, taken before a time when images could easily and affordably be developed in living color. While there’s a certain charm to black and white pics, they can sometimes give the impression that the past was a little duller, or less alive. Which couldn’t be further from the truth.
Enter colorized historical photos. A trend that adds splashes of color to frozen moments, warming up faces, giving eyes some sparkle, and breathing new life into everyday scenes from years gone by. The reimagined photographs remind us that the people who came before us were real humans, with colorful clothing, rosy cheeks, sunlit surroundings, and lives as vivid as our own.
There’s an online community dedicated to sharing gorgeous colorized historical photographs. r/ColorizedHistory has clocked up more than 631,000 members. And it’s not hard to see why. The posts put a new spin on old photography, and turn the static past into a stunning, colorful gallery that somehow helps to bridge the gap between “then” and “now.” Bored Panda has put together a list of our favorite ones. Keep scrolling and prepare to step back in time, while gaining a new perspective on history.
#1 “Do Your Bit! Skate To Work” Women Of The Uso Promoting Gas Rationing During WWII. New York City, 1940s
Image credits: Urban2487
#2 A Photographer Uses His Own Backdrop To Mask Poland’s World War II Ruins While Shooting A Portrait In Warsaw, November 1946
Image credits: marinamaral
#3 African American Boys On Easter Morning. Southside, Chicago, Illinois. April 1941
Image credits: marinamaral
#4 Senegalese Ww1 Soldier Who Lost Both His Arms Writes A Letter With His New Prosthetic Limbs. At Vocational Rehabilitation School For Amputees, 28 Avenue De New-York, Paris – 1918
Image credits: mygrapefruit
#5 “The Giant Of Illinois” – Robert Wadlow, The Tallest Man In Recorded History, With His Family – 1935
Image credits: jecinci
#6 Martin Luther King Jr.’s, 1958 Arrest In Montgomery, Alabama. A Photo Taken By Charles Moore
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#7 A Dog Stealing A Postman’s Glove, Minneapolis, CA. 1950, Photograph Courtesy Of The Minneapolis Historical Society
Image credits: zuzahin
#8 Father, Son, Grandfather And Great Grandfather, New Guinea, 1970, By Irving Penn Photos From The Collection “Worlds In A Small Room”
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#9 Baby Cage, 1930s
Image credits: Angelina_retro
#10 Three Smoking Coal Breaker Boys, Pennsylvania, Between 1890 And 1910
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#11 A Japanese Mother And Child, Dressed In Traditional Clothing, Siting Amid Rubble And Burnt Trees In Hiroshima, 4 Months After The Atomic Bomb Was Dropped. December, 1945 By Alfred Eisenstaedt
Image credits: buba7q
#12 Comedian And Entertainer Lucille Ball Applies Makeup For A Performance In Her Dressing Room. 1934
Image credits: Klimbim
#13 British Soldier Receiving Painful Injection From A Nurse Along The Russian Front
Image credits: Klimbim
#14 Guillaume Duchenne De Boulogne Performing Facial Electrostimulus Experiments, 1854 -1856
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#15 Titanic Orphans, Brothers Michel And Edmond Navratil, 1912. They Were The Only Children To Be Rescued From The Titanic Without A Parent Or Guardian
Image credits: marinamaral
#16 “The Kiss Of Life” – A Utility Worker Giving Mouth-To-Mouth To A Co-Worker After He Contacted A Low Voltage Wire – 1967
Image credits: jecinci
#17 June 6th, 1944: Into The Jaws Of Death
Image credits: photojacker
#18 A Serbian Soldier Sleeps With His Father Who Came To Visit Him On The Front Line Near Belgrade , 1914/1915
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#19 Swedish High Jumper Gunhild Larking From The 1956 Summer Olympics In Melbourne, Australia, From Archives Of Life Magazine
Image credits: Klimbim
#20 American Troops On Board A Landing Craft Heading For The Beaches At Oran In Algeria During Operation ‘Torch’, November 1942
Image credits: buba7q
#21 Anne Frank (1929 – 1945) – Amsterdam, Holland – May 1935
Image credits: jecinci
#22 Joseph Stalin In 1902
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#23 Soldier’s Goodbye & Bobbie The Cat In Sydney, Australia, 8 March 1941 During Ww2
Image credits: mygrapefruit
#24 1902: Knife Grinders In Thiers, France
These knife grinders had the nickname of ventres jaunes or ‘yellow stomachs’ referring to the yellow dust released by the grinding wheels.
By laying face down, these yellow stomachs would save their backs from being hunched over all day. Workers were encourage to bring their dogs to not only keep them company but to act as heaters to keep them warm by having the dogs lie on their legs!
Image credits: Angelina_retro
#25 Isaac & Rosa, Slave Children From New Orleans, CA 1863 / Photographed By Kimball, 477 Broadway, N. Y
Image credits: buba7q
#26 Winnebago Men Looking Out Over The Dells, Wisconsin, 1925
Image credits: mygrapefruit
#27 Cheyenne Dog Soldier “Black Wolf” – Date Unknown
Image credits: jecinci
#28 Ruth Malcolmson, Age 18, Crowned Miss America In 1924
Image credits: mygrapefruit
#29 State Cop’s Motorcycle Admired By The Local Boys At The Annual County Fair In Albany, Vermont, 1936
Image credits: mygrapefruit
#30 Frida Kahlo In 1953 At The English Hospital
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#31 Woman In White Bathing Suit On Beach Wearing Big Straw Hat. 03 August, 1938. Photo By H. Armstrong Roberts
Image credits: Klimbim
#32 A Polish Woman, Holding Her Small Child, Stands On A Warsaw Street That Has Been Destroyed By Luftwaffe Bomber Raids At The Start Of World War II In Europe – September, 1939
Image credits: zuzahin
#33 Albert Einstein Receiving His U.S. Citizenship Certificate After His Naturalization Ceremony – Oct. 1, 1940
Image credits: jecinci
#34 Rosa May Billinghurst, The Suffragette Who Used Her Wheelchair To Charge Police Officers During Protests
Image credits: marinamaral
#35 August 3, 1909, Children Stand Mesmerized As Louis Blériot’s Plane Soars Above The Sands Of Calais
Image credits: buba7q
#36 An American Couple Ride Around On An Autoped Scooter, Circa 1918
Image credits: Angelina_retro
#37 Ginger Rogers In The Spotlight In Gold Diggers Of 1933
Image credits: Klimbim
#38 October 29th, 1929 The Last Day Of The Stock Market Crash That Would Become Known As Black Tuesday
Image credits: Urban2487
#39 Goalkeeper Sam Bartram, Alone On The Pitch, Not Realizing That The Game Had Been Abandoned 15 Minutes Earlier Due To Heavy Fog – 25 Dec 1937
Image credits: jecinci
#40 A Black Union Soldier Posted At A Slave Auction House – Whitehall Street, Atlanta, United States – 1864
Image credits: jecinci
#41 Mark Twain And His Long-Time Friend John T. Lewis, The Inspiration For The Character “Jim” In “Huckleberry Finn”, New York, 1903
Image credits: marinamaral
#42 Finnish Soldiers In NBC (Nuclear, Biological & Chemical) Gear, During An Exercise – 1961
Image credits: jecinci
#43 “Master & Apprentice” – IP Man And His Most Famous Student, Bruce Lee ~ 1957
Image credits: jecinci
#44 Abraham Lincoln, 1860
Image credits: IckyChris
#45 Mugshots Of Benito Mussolini, Dated June 19, 1903
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#46 Charles Manson Being LED Away In Handcuffs After Being Found Guilty Of M**der , 1971
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#47 Ian Turner, Member Of The I.W.W. (Industrial Workers Of The World) At A Rally In Union Square, New York City, 11 April 1914
Image credits: reddit.com
#48 1940, Palestinian Soap Factory In Nablus
Image credits: buba7q
#49 Palestinian Woman Wedad Khuri In Finely Embroidered Ramallah Costume, 1939
Image credits: buba7q
#50 King George V’s Uniformed Portrait, Which He Included In The Christmas Letter Sent To The British Armed Forces During The First World War In Christmas 1914
Image credits: sefaoruc
#51 “The Father Of Basketball” – James Naismith In 1927
Image credits: jecinci
#52 “The Old Samurai” – Yokohama, Japan – Circa 1865
Image credits: jecinci
#53 Lawn Tennis Players, Probably In The Boston Area, Circa 1890
Image credits: marinamaral
#54 Rocky Marciano – The Only Heavyweight Champion To Have Finished His Career Undefeated – 1953
Image credits: jecinci
#55 Private First Class Margerum, Of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Walks The Road Through A Forest In The Bastogne Area, Returning From The Front Lines, December 27th(?) 1944
Image credits: zuzahin
#56 University Students At Restaurant ‘Flustrets’, Uppsala, Sweden 1896
Image credits: reddit.com
#57 W. E. B. Du Bois – American Civil Rights Activist And Leader, Sociologist, Writer, Educator, Poet, And Co-Founder Of The Naacp. In The Year 1907
Image credits: mygrapefruit
#58 Edgar Allan Poe – 1849
Image credits: jecinci
#59 FDR Pointing At The Map, 1942
Image credits: buba7q
#60 U.S Marines Crawling Under Enemy Fire On A Beach In Saipan. June, 1944
Image credits: marinamaral
#61 Unknown Dutch Soldier Smiling With Indonesian Guerilla He Captured Earlier During A Routine Patrol In East Java, Indonesia, July 1946. Indonesian War Of Independence
Image credits: WinterFritz
#62 The Rolling Stones – On The Day Of Their First TV Appearance – 7th July 1963
Image credits: jecinci
#63 8/1/1914-Berlin, Germany: World War I Mobilization In Berlin, August 1, 1914. Two Officers Putting Up A Poster Announcing Decree In Tiergarden While German Boys Watch
Image credits: buba7q
#64 The Titanic Leaving Belfast For Her Sea Trials – 2 April 1912
Image credits: jecinci
#65 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Seated And Holding His Spectacles And A Pencil, Ca 1865
Image credits: buba7q
#66 Yeoman Warders Outside The Gates Of The Tower Of London – 1898
Image credits: jecinci
#67 William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister Of Canada; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom And Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Of The United States Of America During The Québec Conference 1943
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#68 Pele, One Of The Greatest Players Ever To Grace The Sport Of Football, And Labeled The Greatest By Fifa, Unknown Date But Likely In The Late 50’s/Early 60’s
Image credits: zuzahin
#69 Pope Leo XIII In 1887
Image credits: Lorenzo-Folli
#70 Operation Torch November 1942 : American Soliders Arriving To Algiers, Algeria (Former French Colony At That Time)
Image credits: buba7q
#71 “The Destroyer Of Worlds” – Julius Robert Oppenheimer ~ 1952
Image credits: jecinci
#72 A Fashionable Lady From Moscow, 1860s
Image credits: Klimbim
#73 Marie Curie, Ca 1900
Image credits: buba7q
#74 Young JFK, Ca1953
Image credits: buba7q
#75 Baron Rothschild And His Brother Leopold De Rothschild (In Top Hat), 1906
Image credits: Klimbim
#76 First U.S. Army Infantrymen Start Through Heavy Woods On Way To Attack German-Held Barracks Near Siegen, Germany. 6 April, 1945
Image credits: formerherosander
#77 Pauline Cushman (1833-1893), American Actress And Spy For Union Army During American Civil War, Mathew Brady Studio, 1864
Image credits: Klimbim
#78 A Young Man From The Levant Wearing Traditional Bedouin Clothes, Early 1900s
Image credits: buba7q
#79 Unknown Woman Loading Cabbage Into Her 1941 Pontiac Torpedo. 1941-1945
Image credits: formerherosander
#80 Teddy Roosevelt, 1907
Image credits: formerherosander
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