A moment's glimpse beyond the factory walls: a 10-year-old spinner gazes out of the cotton mill she's been working at for over a year in Lincolnton, North Carolina (Nov 1908)8mo ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
African-American boys on Easter morning, Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 19411yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
The Great Sphinx of Giza, photographed 172 years ago, 1851.9mo ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
A massive mushroom cloud rises above Hiroshima, Japan, two minutes after an atomic bomb exploded over the city. 6th August, 1945.1yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
I restored, enhanced, and colorized this 155+ year-old portrait of a girl in a striped dress (~1865)1yr ⋅ Haxdawg ⋅ r/Colorization
Father and daughter visiting Central Park Zoo. Photo by Vivian Maier (1959)2yr ⋅ fratuzzi ⋅ r/Colorization
Lunch time at a California School, 1942, taken shortly before Americans of Japanese ancestry (including the pictured boy) were forcefully evacuated and imprisoned until the end of WWII in Relocation Centers1yr ⋅ Haxdawg ⋅ r/Colorization
A crowd of angry parents hurl insults at 6 year-old Ruby Bridges as she enters a traditionally all-white school, the first black child to do so in the United States South, 1960. Bridges is just 67 today.1yr ⋅ Haxdawg ⋅ r/Colorization
Navajo man dressed as Nayenezgani, Slayer of Alien Gods, Monster Slayer or Killer of Enemies. Navajo nation, c.1904.1yr ⋅ AutisticKnight ⋅ r/Colorization
A British soldier 'shaking hands' with a kitten on a snowy bank in Neulette, France. 17 December, 19171yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
Woman kneeling next to bed of child, in an underground tunnel during the bombing of London, World War II, January 19452yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Teenage Meet-Up on Main Street, Caldwell Idaho, June-July 1941. Original b&w by Russell Lee.1yr ⋅ EggsAckley ⋅ r/Colorization
Bull Chief of the Absaroke Native American tribe wearing warbonnet, crossing shallow rapids on horseback, Montana, 19051yr ⋅ Haxdawg ⋅ r/Colorization
Christmas time - silhouette of father and son walking down the street with just-bought Christmas tree. Haarlem, Netherlands, 19491yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels calls for total war during a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast, 18 February 1943.1yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
Soldier belonging to Gotland's infantry regiment (I 27) trying to contain his laughter during a group photo outside the barracks at Visborg plain, Gotland, Sweden c.1900.9mo ⋅ AutisticKnight ⋅ r/Colorization
British Army fatigue party carrying duckboards over a support line trench at night. Cambrai, 12 January 1917.10mo ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
German soldiers crossing the border into the Soviet Union on the morning of 22 June, 1941.1yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
Finnish women pictured by the Pyramid of Khafre in Egypt, late 19101yr ⋅ justneedsomehelp19 ⋅ r/Colorization
Mechanic Henry “Harry” Hanawa, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. 1943. Photo by Ansel Adams.9mo ⋅ RoyalAce22 ⋅ r/Colorization
Austro-Hungarian soldier aiming down a mountain slope near Gschnitz, Austria (1916)7mo ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
Japanese women near an exploding fire bomb during a drill in Tokyo, Japan, 1938.1yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
A girl in Halloween costume in front of John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, NASA, Ohio, 28 October 19771yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis visit the 'Great German Art Exhibition' at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, 19371yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly performing around 1960.1yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
Gay men sassily posing at the camera while being detained at public ministry office, Mexico, 19402yr ⋅ bee_of_doom ⋅ r/Colorization
Vance Palmer, a 15 years old trapper boy, in a coal mine in Harrison County, West Virginia, September 19081yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Models posing in bathing suits floating in a swimming pool, October 19481yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Soldiers marching on a road littered with destruction near Ypres on 14 September 19179mo ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
Cecil J Williams in 1956, drinking from a WHITE ONLY fountain. Photographed by his friend Rendall Harper.3yr ⋅ tittyswan ⋅ r/Colorization
In 1966, Activist James Meredith, the first black man to be integrated into The University of Mississippi, organized a one man march to encourage African Americans to vote. Shortly into his march, he was shot in the neck, head, and back. A statue of him now stands on the University's campus.2yr ⋅ Haxdawg ⋅ r/Colorization
Eileen Dunne, aged three, sits in bed with her doll at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, after being injured during an air raid on London, September 19401yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Descendants of former slaves of the Pettway Plantation living under primitive conditions, Gees Bend, Alabama, February 19371yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Lt. Richard K. Jones of Hollywood, California, feeds Japanese children found in a tomb 50 yards from the front line on Okinawa, April 23, 19452yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Soldier in trench at the front line, during the Winter war in Suomussalmi 1st December 1939, Finland.1yr ⋅ museoukko ⋅ r/Colorization
Argentine-born Ernesto Che Guevara, a communist revolutionary who played an important role in the 1959 Cuban Revolution. He was executed by the Bolivian authorities in 1967 attempting to instigate a revolution againist the country's right-wing regime.11mo ⋅ JonnyBL21 ⋅ r/Colorization
Convicts including bluesman Buddy Moss at the Greene County prison camp, Georgia, May 19411yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Waiting for a Greyhound bus, Rome, GA, September 1943. B&w original by Esther Bubley.1yr ⋅ EggsAckley ⋅ r/Colorization
Migratory agricultural worker from Florida waiting to leave Belcross, North Carolina to another job at Onley, Virginia, July 19401yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
I restored, enhanced, and colorized this 163 year-old portrait of a George Custer (1859)1yr ⋅ Haxdawg ⋅ r/Colorization
Teenagers with tuxedos and top hats during the August 1943 riots in Harlem. Photo: Everett Collection / CSU Archives2yr ⋅ fratuzzi ⋅ r/Colorization
A scene of devastation at Chateau Wood near Ypres, Belgium, 19181yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
Japanese-American college students during their relocation to an internment camp. Sacramento, 1942.4yr ⋅ colouringhistory ⋅ r/Colorization
Marauder in flame after a direct hit by a German AAA over Toulon, France in 1944. Colorized by me.1yr ⋅ Murica4ever1998 ⋅ r/Colorization
Portrait of a man during the bushfires at Blackheath, New South Wales, 4th February 19521yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Jim Morrison performing at the Kongresshalle in Frankfurt, West Germany (September 14th, 1968)1yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
An American soldier makes out an identity tag for a young German prisoner of war as another wounded Nazi supplies some necessary information. 9 June, 1944.10mo ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
A 16-year old glass works boy in his night shift at 1 A.M., Indiana, August 19081yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Howard Florey, the Australian pharmacologist who first harnessed the uses of Penicillin, circa 1930s.1yr ⋅ JonnyBL21 ⋅ r/Colorization
Unidentified soldier of the First AIF. Most likely taken in Australia, pre-embarkation sometime between 1915 and 1918. [1848x3000]1yr ⋅ TheThornyCoconut02 ⋅ r/Colorization
Henry Wilkie Miller (my great-great grandfather), Scottish Rifles, 1918.1yr ⋅ RoyalAce22 ⋅ r/Colorization
A police officer scolds an antimasker, (1918, colorized by me).3yr ⋅ Based_Lawnmower ⋅ r/Colorization
If you talk too much, this man may die, Private Ivan A. Smith, originated this novel method of reminding his fellow soldiers to practice discretion, Camp Hood, Texas, January 19432yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Isaac & Rosa, slave children from New Orleans, 1863 photographed by Kimball, 477 Broadway, N. Y.1yr ⋅ buba7q ⋅ r/Colorization
Portrait of a man dressed as a Mexican bandit during Charro Days Fiesta, Brownsville, Texas, February 194211mo ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
American Civil War Veterans drop flowers from the air onto Gettysburg Battlefield to honor fallen comrades, 19383yr ⋅ Haxdawg ⋅ r/Colorization
Coal miner, his wife and two of their children. Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Photo: Marion Post Wolcott (1938)2yr ⋅ fratuzzi ⋅ r/Colorization
1945. lee miller in hitler’s bathtub. she’s a war correspondent. the photo was taken on the day hitler died.2yr ⋅ emilwallner ⋅ r/Colorization
RMS Titanic at Southampton docks, prior to departure on April 11, 1912. Four days later she would sink on her maiden voyage, 110 years to the day.1yr ⋅ glimpsesintothepast ⋅ r/Colorization
Albert Einstein giving a speech at the U.S. Department of the Interior (1940)1yr ⋅ Meta_Pixel ⋅ r/Colorization
A Sicilian farmer showing to an American soldier where the Germans retreated - August 19434yr ⋅ Alxssandro ⋅ r/Colorization
Portrait of the photographer Cornelis G. Leenheer, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, April 22, 19391yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
William Patrick Hitler, nephew of Adolf hitler in his uniform as a member of the US Navy during World War II.2yr ⋅ Decent-Sink ⋅ r/Colorization
Dorothea Lange Portrait of Mother and Child during The Great Depression, 19393yr ⋅ Haxdawg ⋅ r/Colorization
First colourization attempt - US President Theodore Roosevelt, 1903.11mo ⋅ Ok_Independence781 ⋅ r/Colorization
Saturday morning baseball game, FSA camp, Robstown, Texas, January 19421yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.2yr ⋅ conor_colour ⋅ r/Colorization
On February 12, 1946, hours after being honorably discharged from the United States Army, Isaac Woodard was attacked while still in uniform by South Carolina police as he was taking a bus home.3yr ⋅ fratuzzi ⋅ r/Colorization
Jewish soldiers from the German and Austro-Hungarian Empire celebrating Hanukkah, 1916.2yr ⋅ AutisticKnight ⋅ r/Colorization
Hollywood actress Doreen Sinclair with a dog in an open car wearing aviator glasses, Scotland, 1930s1yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
A kitten on a water lily pad in the Philippines, 1935. (Photo by Alfred T. Palmer)3yr ⋅ loalio ⋅ r/Colorization
Nora Kerin (1881 - 1970), an Edwardian stage actress, as Princess Astrea von Streisburg / 2nd Lieutenant Karl Helsburg in the melodrama play The Midnight Wedding. It was performed in the Lyceum Theatre in London in 1907, where this photo was taken.1mo ⋅ MemoriesOfTime ⋅ r/Colorization
Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim, the famous art collector, socialite and bohemian, photographed by David ‘Chim’ Seymour at her palace on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy, 1950.2yr ⋅ fratuzzi ⋅ r/Colorization
Older lady checking out actress Vikki Dougan, 1957. Photographer Ralph Crane.3yr ⋅ tittyswan ⋅ r/Colorization
Three men of 'The Windrush Generation' migrants from the Caribbean arrive on UK shores, 1948.3yr ⋅ linglingjr ⋅ r/Colorization
Anandibai Joshee (left) from India, Kei Okami (center) from Japan, and Sabat M. Islambouli (right) from Ottoman Syria, students from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. All three were the first woman doctors from their respective countries photographed in 10 October 18851yr ⋅ Decent-Sink ⋅ r/Colorization
Queen Elizabeth, at Buckingham Palace, photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1942.2yr ⋅ memorylanepr ⋅ r/Colorization
Christian Leden, a Norwegian explorer, ethno-musicologist and composer, 19092yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Reworked colorization of my late grandmother's portrait from the 40s. (I've been back and forth with this piece for about a month now. )2yr ⋅ Kavinski_ ⋅ r/Colorization
Portrait of Chicago White Sox pitcher Big Ed (Edward Augustine) Walsh, May 13, 19111yr ⋅ rishicolors ⋅ r/Colorization
Ann Elizabeth Hodges, the only person recorded to have been hit by a meteorite, in 1954. She survived!2yr ⋅ tittyswan ⋅ r/Colorization
