Realistically colorized historical photos

Over the last couple years, an increasingly popular trend online has been to create and share colorized photos from history. Artists such as Jordan Lloyd, Dana Keller and Sanna Dullaway take intriguing old black-and-white photos and bring them to life with color as if they’d been taken only yesterday. Here are some examples… Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife, circa 1939 Testing the Hydrogen Bomb London, 1945 Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 Japanese Archers, circa 1860 View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864 Audrey Hepburn Albert Einstein in Long Island, 1939 Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933 Baltimore Slums, 1938 British Troops Board Their Train for the Front, 1939 Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880 Walt Whitman, 1887 Mark Twain, circa 1900 Charlie Chaplin, 1916 Elizabeth Taylor, 1956 Country store, 1939 Washington D. Charles Darwin, 1874 Abraham Lincoln, 1865 Theodore Roosevelt Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953

40 Must-See Photos From The Past The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to historical photography. Sometimes, one simple picture can tell you more about history than any story you might read or any document you might analyze. [Read more...] These photographs all tell stories about the historical figures or events that they represent. Once taken simply to document their present, they now help us witness the past. Perhaps the wars, poverty, fights for freedom and little miracles of the past have lessons for us that we can use today? (via sobadsogood) Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938 Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885 Elvis in the Army, 1958 Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956 Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923 Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916 Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937 Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924

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