All of us living in a color photography era, but most of you may not know that color photography was very rare up until the 1970s. So, we’ve only seen the history in black and white version.

Some talented artists of modern world used their skills to produce colorized historical photos from old black and white pictures related to famous events, person, and many historical milestones. These rare colorized historical photos are our only chance at seeing what the world really looked like before we even born…and, boy, was it impressive.

#01. Hindenburg Disaster – May 6, 1937

#02. Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, NY

#03. British troops cheerfully board their train for the first stage of their trip to the front – England, September 20, 1939

#04. Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921

#05. Abraham Lincoln, 1865

#06. People standing in line Louisville, Kentucky 1939

#07. Thich Quang Duc, The burning monk, 1963

#08. Kissing the War Goodbye, V-J Day August 14, 1945

#09. John Currie, The gentleman in uniform is “Mauretania’s” first Chief Engineer in Canada Dock in Liverpool, 1909

#10. Marilyn Monroe

#11. World War 2 soldiers on Easter

#12. W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923

#13. Louis Armstrong plays to his wife, Lucille, in Cairo, Egypt 1961

#14. Two Boxers after a fight

#15. Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal. London 1945

#16. Joseph Goebbels scowling at photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after finding out he’s Jewish, 1933

#17. Japanese Archers circa 1860

#18. Young boy in Baltimore slum area, July 1938

#19. View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864

#20. Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880

#21. Unemployed lumber worker, circa 1939

#22. ‘Old Gold’, Country store, 1939

#23. Walt Whitman, 1887

#24. Charles Darwin

#25. Mark Twain in the garden, circa 1900

#26. Audrey Hepburn

#27. Theodore Roosevelt

#28. Charlie Chaplin at the age of 27, 1916

#29. Dorothy Counts – one of the first black students admitted to High School, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

#30. Elizabeth Taylor – Giant (1956 film)

#31. Attack on Pearl Harbour

#32. Anne Frank, 1942

#33. Times Square 1947

#34. WSC

#35. Hellen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918

#36. Thomas Edison

#37. Charles Darwin

#38. Nicola Tesla

#39. A Washington, D.C. filling station in 1924

#40. H-Bomb Test

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