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

Albert Einstein in Long Island, 1939

London, 1945

Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc

Operation Crossroads, Baker Event at the Bikini Atoll

Hindenburg Disaster, 1937

Victory Over Japan Day in Times Square

Fridtjof Nansen

August Strindberg

Mark Twain

Charles Darwin

Theodore Roosevelt

Alfred Hitchcock

Abraham Lincoln

Charlie Chaplin

Anne Frank

Albert Einstein

Che Guevara

Winston Churchill

Tuskegee Airmen

Confederate Prisoners

Captain Cunningham

Old Gold Country Store, 1939

Marilyn Monroe

History March

Grace Kelly

Yellow Girl

Old Milwaukee

Arkansas Sharecropper

Louisville, Kentucky, 1937

Audrey Hepburn

British Troops Board Their Train for the Front, 1939

Baltimore Slums, 1938

Japanese Archers, circa 1860

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

Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880

Walt Whitman, 1887

Washington D. C., 1921

Elizabeth Taylor, 1956

Nicola Tesla

 Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953

 

W.H. Murphy testing bulletproof jacket, 1923