39 Astounding Rebirths of Historic Images That Are Just Beyond Amazing
Our history is our heritage, comprising of events that changed the course of time. Our black and white treasures that we so deeply cherish and preserve as if we were to contain those moments in a picture and relive them every now and then. But, what if you could breathe new life into them and see them like you’ve never seen them before: In Vivid Color! Here’s a collection of some of the most outstanding images in history that were colorized to put them back to life.
1. An abandoned boy holds on to his only companion : a stuffed toy animal, London, (1945)
2. Cherry Blossoms in bloom, Washington DC, (1925)
3. A Finnish soldier with his best friend, Hämeenlinna, Finland, (1941)
4. Boy watching TV for the first time in an appliance store window, (1948)
5. Girls delivering ice, (1918)
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6. An unemployed Lumber Worker, (circa 1939)
7. Operation Overlord, (June 1944)
8. Duck Dynasty, (1926)
9. Sharon Tate a few years before her 1969 murder by the Manson family.
10. The Jersey Shore, “Boardwalk at Asbury Park.”, (circa 1905)
11. Manhattan at sunset from the George Washington Bridge, (December 1936)
12. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Soccer legend Pele. Sao Paulo, (1958)
13. The Romanov sisters: Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana, (1910)
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14. Wilbur Wright (of the Wright Brothers) clings to his damaged flying machine after an unsuccessful trial on December 14, 1903.
15. Boxing match aboard the U.S.S. New York, (1899)
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16. Flipping Burgers, (1938)
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17. College students pile into a Volkswagen Beetle, (c. 1965)
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18. Hot dog stand in North End, Boston, (1937)
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19. Clint Eastwood works on his 1958 Jag XK 120, (1960)
20. War Paint, (1944)
21. Times Square on D-Day, (1944)
22. Unemployed men outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, (1931)
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23. Lunch Time, (1908)
24. A Nihang Bodyguard, (c.1865)
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25. Piles of snow on Broadway with an ironic ad, after storm, New York, (ca 1905)
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26. A small child with a puppy at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, (1943)
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27. Easter Eggs for Hitler, (1944)
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28. The Flatiron Building, (1905)
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29. A group of bootblacks gather around an old Civil War veteran for a wartime story in Pennsylvania, (1935)
30. Helpless…Children watch as their neighborhood is bombed in Minsk, Belorussia. The bombing was part of Operation Barbarossa, (June, 1941)
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31. Mardi Gras, New Orleans, (1907)
32. Helen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin, (1919)
33. A child of a migrant family lies sick in Yakima Valley, Washington, (1939)
34. Street musicians of Amsterdam, Kaatje and Christiaan Britting, (ca. 1885)
35. Young Boy in Baltimore Slum Area, (1938)
36. View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil War, (1864)
37. Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald, (1945)
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38. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, (ca. 1935)
39. “Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant killed in air combat” – Western Desert, Egypt, (1941)
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Also, don’t forget to check out a similar article that went insanely viral on the web: 41 Magically Restored Images From The Past That Will Leave You Speechless
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