This Is How Historic Photos Would Look Like If Color Cameras Existed Back Then

By | November 3, 2015

Seeing old photos in black and white sometimes make us forget that life back then was experienced in the same lively colours that surround us today. But the talented artists of Reddit's r/ColorizedHistory artists helps us remember just that.

Boxing match aboard the U.S.S. New York, July 3, 1899
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Siblings Yvonne, 13, and Alexander, 12, drinking and smoking on a yacht near Majorca
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An Ojibwe Native American spearfishing, Minnesota, 1908
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Adolf Hitler, with Mussolini’s son-in-law and Joachim von Ribbentrop, attends a Nazi Party rally, 1930s
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Soldiers wear gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, October 15, 1941
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Captain Walter “Waddy” Young and his crew enthusiastically pose in front of their caricatures on their B-29 Superfortress, November 24, 1944
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British tattoo artist George Burchett, the “King of Tattooists”, 1930
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Post officers testing their brand-new “Autopeds” scooters, Washington, D.C., 1917
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Joe Lincoln of Accord, champion decoy maker of New England, 1926
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Sling cart used in removing captured artillery during the American Civil War, 1865
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A mother helps her child off the trolley on a Broadway in New York City, July, 1913
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A black man drinking at ‘Colored’ water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, ca July 1939
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A young John F. Kennedy right after his graduation from Harvard, summer of 1940
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Times Square, D-Day, 1944
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Observer on Iwo Jima, February, 1945
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Children watch as their neighborhood is bombed in Minsk, Belorussia, June 1941
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Stalin and Churchill in Livadia Palace during the Yalta Conference, February, 1945
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H/T Deadstate