43 Realistically Colorized Historical Photos Bring the Past to Life

Historical photographs easily evoke emotion in and of itself. Add realistic colors to these photographs and it will dramatically change our view of history. Check out  restored photographs from the late 1800s and early 1900s by artists like Jordan Lloyd, Dana Keller and Sanna Dullaway, which include photos of the Victory Kiss in Time Square, Hindenburg Disaster, Albert Eintstein,  Abraham Lincoln, Audrey Hepburn and more.

Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife, circa 1939

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Albert Einstein in Long Island, 1939

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London, 1945

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Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc

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Operation Crossroads, Baker Event at the Bikini Atoll

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Hindenburg Disaster, 1937

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Victory Over Japan Day in Times Square

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Fridtjof Nansen

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August Strindberg

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Mark Twain

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Charles Darwin

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Abraham Lincoln

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Charlie Chaplin

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Anne Frank

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Albert Einstein

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Che Guevara

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Winston Churchill

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Tuskegee Airmen

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Confederate Prisoners

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Captain Cunningham

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Old Gold Country Store, 1939

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Marilyn Monroe

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History March

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Grace Kelly

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Yellow Girl

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Old Milwaukee

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Arkansas Sharecropper

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Louisville, Kentucky, 1937

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Audrey Hepburn

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British Troops Board Their Train for the Front, 1939

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Baltimore Slums, 1938

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Japanese Archers, circa 1860

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

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Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880

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Walt Whitman, 1887

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Washington D. C., 1921

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Elizabeth Taylor, 1956

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Nicola Tesla

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 Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953

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W.H. Murphy testing bulletproof jacket, 1923

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