If Color Cameras Existed When These 20 Historic Photos Were Taken, They'd Look Like This
by N/A, 9 years ago |
3 min read
Old black and white photography can be very cool, but seeing the historical pictures we're so used to seeing in monochrome suddenly in vibrant color gives us a brand new outlook on history. While we can't be positive if every color is exactly right, the new versions of each one look pretty incredible, and almost like they were originally in color.
1. Abraham Lincoln taken in February, 1865
2. Boxing match on the U.S.S. New York in July, 1899
3. Two young children drink and smoke on a yacht
4. An Ojibwe Native American spearfishing in Minnesota in 1908
5. Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop, Mussolini's son-in-law, attend a Nazi Party rally
6. Soldiers peeling onions while wearing gas masks at Tobruk in October, 1941
7. Captain Walter "Waddy" Young and his crew pose with their B-29 Superfortress in november, 1944
8. "King of Tattooists" George Burchett in the 1930s
9. Mail workers show their new "Autoped" scooters in Washington, D.C. in 1917
10. Sarah Vaughan performing in 1946
11. Joe Lincoln, champion decoy maker of New England in 1926
12. A sling cart at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia during the American Civil war in 1865
13. A mother helps a kid off the trolly car in New York City in July, 1913
14. A black man drinking from the "Colored" water cooler in Oklahoma City in July, 1939
15. John F. Kennedy after graduating from Harvard in 1940
16. D-Day in Times Square
17. Observers on Iowa Jima in February in 1945
18. Children in Minsk, Belorussia watching as their neighborhood is bomed in June, 1941
19. Stalin and Churchill at the Yalta Conference in February of 1945
20. Louis and Lucille Armstrong at the Sphinx in January of 1961
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Do not show me this again