38 Colorized Historic Photos That Are Just Beyond Amazing

By | May 14, 2016

Take a look at this incredible collection of some of the most outstanding images in history that were colorized and brought back to life. Enjoy!

Cherry Blossoms in bloom, Washington DC, 1925

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Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

A Finnish soldier practicing maneuvers amid the winter snow at a military dog training school during the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War. Hämeenlinna, Finland. February 1941.

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Women delivering ice, 1918

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Operation Overlord, June 1944

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The Duck Dynasty, 1926

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Sharon Tate a few years before she was murdered by the Manson family in 1969. Sharon Tate was murdered in her home. 

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The Jersey Shore, circa 1905. "Boardwalk at Asbury Park."

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Manhattan at sunset as seen from the George Washington Bridge, December 1936

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Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Soccer legend Pele. Sao Paulo, 1958

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The Romanov sisters - Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana, 1910)

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Wilbur Wright clings to his damaged flying machine after an unsuccessful attempt to fly on December 14, 1903.

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Flipping Burgers, 1938

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College students enthusiastically pile into a Volkswagen Beetle, circa 1965

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Hot dog stand in North End, Boston, 1937

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Clint Eastwood working on his 1958 Jag XK 120, 1960

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War Paint, 1944

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Times Square on D-Day, 1944

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Unemployed men line up outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago for a free meal during the Great Depression, 1931

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Lunch Time, 1908

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A Nihang Bodyguard, circa 1865

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Piles of snow on Broadway with an ironic ad, after storm, New York, circa 1905

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A small boy with a puppy at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, 1943

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Easter Eggs for Hitler, 1944

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The Flatiron Building, 1905

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A bootblack boys gather around an old Civil War veteran for a wartime story in Pennsylvania, 1935

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Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 1907

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A migrant child lies sick in Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939

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Street musicians of Amsterdam, Kaatje and Christiaan Britting, circa 1885

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View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee during the Civil War, 1864

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Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald, 1945

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Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco under construction, circa 1935

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“Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant killed in air combat” – Western Desert, Egypt, 1941

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Titanic sinks on April 15, 1912. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett selling copies of the evening paper bearing news of the disaster, April 16, 1912

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Colorized by Dana Keller/History in Color

Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and the only surviving member of the Frank family, revisits the attic they holed up in during the war, May 3, 1960

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Painting World War II Propaganda Posters, Port Washington, New York, July 8, 1942

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Colorized by Patty Allison/Imbued with Hues

Times Square, 1947

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Survivors of the Battle of Gettysburg at the 50th anniversary reunion, July 1913

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Colorized by Photo Retrofit