These Incredibly-Edited Photos Bring Us History In Color

Publish date: 2024-05-29

As the maxim goes, a picture speaks a thousand words. But in color, they say even more. We give you these amazing photos of history in color.

Hines Boys Bw Some of these Connecticut high school boys in 1909 have been newsboys for eight or nine years already. US National Archives Hines Boys Color Some of these Connecticut high school boys in 1909 have been newsboys for eight or nine years already. Colours of Yesterday/Facebook At The Fair Bw At the 1942 fair in Klamath Falls, Oregon.Russell Lee/The Library of Congress History in Color At The Fair Color At the 1942 fair in Klamath Falls, Oregon.Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Battle Of Saipan Bw An injured Japanese father and child in 1944 during the Battle of Saipan. W. Eugene Smith/Life Magazine/Flickriver History in Color Battle Of Saipan Color An injured Japanese father and child in 1944 during the Battle of Saipan. Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Buster Keaton Bw Buster Keaton making New Year’s resolutions in 1929.Pinterest History in Color Buster Keaton Color Buster Keaton making New Year’s resolutions in 1929.Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Dorothy Sebastian Bw Metro Goldwyn Mayer star Dorothy Sebastian brushes up on her flying instructions, circa 1929.Flickr/A Diamond Fell From the Sky Dorothy Sebastian Color Metro Goldwyn Mayer star Dorothy Sebastian brushes up on her flying instructions, circa 1929.Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Lange Heat Wave Bw A 1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri, awaiting the opening of orange picking season in Porterville, California.Library of Congress Lange Heat Wave Color A 1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri, awaiting the opening of orange picking season in Porterville, California.Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Jane Russell Bw Jane Russell in a promotional shot for the 1943 film The Outlaw. Flickr/siddacool Jane Russell Color Jane Russell in a promotional shot for the 1943 film The Outlaw. Flickr/siddacool Migrant Mother Bw Migrant Mother Color Paddock Station Bw Fresh socks are given to evacuated troops from Dunkirk in 1940 at Paddock Wood station in Kent, England.Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Paddock Station Color Fresh socks are given to evacuated troops from Dunkirk in 1940 at Paddock Wood station in Kent, England.Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Sarah Vaughan Bw Singer Sarah Vaughan, circa August of 1946.Wikipedia Sarah Vaughan Color Singer Sarah Vaughan, circa August of 1946.reddit/Captain-cliche Sideshow Barker Bw 1942 Sideshow barker at the Klamath Falls, Oregon circus.Russell Lee/The Library of Congress Sideshow Barker Color 1942 Sideshow barker at the Klamath Falls, Oregon circus.Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Rita Hayworth Bw Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Cansino, was a 1940's screen idol and top WWII pin-up girl. Flickr/siddacool Rita Hayworth Color Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Cansino, was a 1940's screen idol and top WWII pin-up girl. Flickr/siddacool West Indian Troops Bw West Indian and Australian troops in 1917 during the Battle of Ypres, stacking 8-inch shells at a dump. Imperial War Museum West Indian Troops Color West Indian and Australian troops in 1917 during the Battle of Ypres, stacking 8-inch shells at a dump.Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Women Tuba Bw Two women with a tuba, Washington, D.C., 1928. Harris & Ewing Collection/Shorpy Photo Archive Women Tuba Color Two women with a tuba, Washington, D.C., 1928. Colours of Yesterday/Facebook Brigitte Bardot French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot.Flickr/siddacool History In Color Mark Twain Mark Twain in the garden, 1900. Reddit/Zuzahin History In Color Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the film ‘Giant’, 1956. Photographer: Frank WorthReddit/Malakon VJ Day Kiss V-J Day in Times Square, August 14th, 1945. Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt.Sanna Dullaway/Deviant Art History In Color Walt Whitman Walt Whitman portrait, 1887. Reddit/DanarKeller British Troops In Color British Troops in England, September 20th, 1939. Reddit/BenAfleckIsAnOkActor History In Color Bullet Proof H.W. Murphy, testing his bulletproof jacket, October 13th, 1923. United States Library of Congress.Reddit/BenAfleckIsAnOkActor Charles Darwin In Color Charles Darwin portrait, March 7th, 1874. Reddit/mygrapefruit Stuffed Toy Child Boy with Stuffed Toy in London during WWII, 1945. Photographer: Toni Frissel. Reddit/HansLucifer Hindenburg Disaster In Color Hindenburg Disaster, May 6th, 1937. Photographer: Murray Becker. Reddit/danarkeller Nikola Tesla In Color Nikola Tesla, 1893. Photographer: Napoleon Sarony. Reddit/danarkeller

Photo-editing software has never been more affordable or easier to use, and as a result various artists have used the technology to physically alter the way we view our past. Indeed, we can now see centuries-old events in color, which inevitably has the effect of making the events captured by camera seem more "real." Don't believe us? Check out these photos of history in color and see for yourself:

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