View of The Manhattan Bridge Under Construction from Washington Street Brooklin/New York - February 21, 19086yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A 32-year-old mother of 7 children called Florence Owens Thompson, Nipomo, California. February 1936. (Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange).6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
“Rough Rider” - Theodore Roosevelt Jr.( son of the 26th U.S. President) - The only general on D-Day to land by sea with the first wave of troops. Italy, 17 January 19446yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Wounded British troops at a Dressing Station in Aveluy Wood. One man shows damage to his steel helmet from which he suffered a head wound, WWI.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Finnish sappers use a captured Soviet ROKS-2 flamethrower during a training exercise in Karelia. March 4th, 19431yr ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Private Paul Oglesby, 30th Infantry, standing in reverence before an altar in a damaged Catholic Church (Santa Maria degli Angeli). Acerno, Italy, September 1943.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff -- Herbert Niccolls, the 12-year-old who shot and killed Asotin County's (Washington) sheriff in 19314yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany with Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, circa 1913.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Operation Torch November 1942 : American Soliders arriving to Algiers, Algeria (former french colony at that time).1yr ⋅ buba7q ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
King Edward VII and Tsar Nicholas II on board the Russian Imperial Yacht Standart at Reval, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia), June 1908.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Winston Churchill was born #OnThisDay 1874. Here you can see him at the age of 24.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Goodyear illuminated tires on a Ford Consul Classic 315 Sedan - 19617yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
One of four pedlars who slept in the cellar of 11 Ludlow Street rear, ca. 1890.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
American infantrymen of the U.S. Army’s 92nd Infantry Division (“Buffalo Soldiers Division”) are photographed at rest in Italy. Province of La Spezia, Liguria. April 1945.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Scold's Bridle from Armagh Jail - Ireland. early 1900s - a woman sitting with the bridle over her face, to stop her from speaking.3yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Alexander Schmorell, founding member of the White Rose Nazi resistance movement, and later a Saint of the Christian Orthodox Church. Executed in 1943 by the regime for distributing leaflets together with Sophie and Hans Scholl2yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Stewards and nurses, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital. Around the year 1890.3yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Chief Eagle - Atoem Elem Wh Skil Em Me - Flathead Indian Reservation - Montana, 1906.6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
General Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers prior to D-Day.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Emperor Nicholas II wearing a uniform of the Scots Greys - Sep 18966yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Harriet Tubman - photographed in 1868 - American abolitionist, humanitarian, armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War.6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Pauline Cushman (1833-1893), American Actress and Spy for Union Army during American Civil War, Mathew Brady Studio, 18641yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Queen Victoria with Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Seated on the left is Tsarina Alexandra holding her baby daughter Grand Duchess Olga - Balmoral Castle, 1896.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Katherine Douglas Smith addressing a crowd of men at Portsmouth, circa 1910.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Robert F. Kennedy on the campaign trail, in front of a poster of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. It appeared on the cover of Life Magazine on June 28th 1968, and was photographed by Bill Eppridge1yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Yma Sumac, Peruvian Singer, Date taken: August 8, 1950, Photographer: Peter Stackpole1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Otto Frank in the attic of the secret annexe on the day that the Anne Frank House was officially opened to the public, on 3 May 1960.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Group of breaker boys (coal-mining workers). Pine Street, 1911.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
French soldiers in a trench during WWI. Cretes des Eparges, France, February 1916.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Faces of Auschwitz: Janina Nowak. She was deported to the German Nazi Auschwitz camp on June 12, 1942.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Billie Holiday and her Boxer named Mister at Downbeat club in New York, 19474yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
US Marine running through Japanese fire on Okinawa, Japan, 7 Jun 19457yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
U.S. Third Army troops lie low in a barge while crossing the Rhine. Germany, 1945.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Unknown Dutch Rifleman with cigarette in his mouth poses for a photo during the Indonesian War of Independence. Near Surabaya, Indonesia, 1946.1yr ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
American soldier walking through a field on a reconnaissance mission, near Troina, Sicily, August 4-5th, 19431yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Winston Churchill, his son Randolph and grandson Winston in coronation robes, 1953.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Easy Company's Pvt. Joseph 'Joe' D. Liebgott, an unknown trooper, and Burton P. Christenson, from 1st Platoon, E Company, 2nd BN, 506th PIR. Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 19441yr ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Rosa May Billinghurst, the suffragette who used her wheelchair to charge police officers during protests.1yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Unidentified soldier of the First AIF. The photograph was probably taken in Australia, pre-embarkation, sometime between 1915 and 1918.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Anna May Wong - The first Asian American on US currency - photographed by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair - 19311yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Infantrymen of the 1st Division, U.S. First Army, make final preparations and get briefed before crossing the Roer River at Schneidhausen, Germany. 25 Feb 45.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
English children huddle in a trench during a German air raid, 1940.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in Rosedale, Mississippi - This “photo-booth self-portrait” of Johnson, believed to have been taken in the early 1930s. It is one of only two known photos of Johnson that have been made public. From the Granger Collection, New York.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
U.S. Army military policemen toasting bread over molten lava from Vesuvius - March 18, 19446yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Iwo Jima - A wounded US Marine holding the piece of shrapnel that was removed from his neck in the invasion of Iwo Jima, February 20, 1945.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Enlisted men of unit 5891-E with Red Cross Canteen Worker, Helen Alston, before sailing overseas, 1944.2yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Photographers and reporters observe an atomic explosion in the distance. Mushroomclouds could be seen up to 100 miles away in the distance. This led to increased tourism for LasVegas, and throughout the 1950s and early 1960s the city capitalized on this interest.2yr ⋅ ColorizedPieceofJake ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Virginia, Army of the Potomac Headquarters Captain Harry Page, Quartermaster. The Halt. May 18641yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Howard Carter examines the innermost coffin of Tutankhamun, 19254yr ⋅ photojacker ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
MLB Opening game in Yankee Stadium I in Bronx NY, Wednesday, June 25, 19246yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
U.S. Army medical soldiers administering a plasma transfusion to a survivor of a landing craft sunk somewhere off the coast of northern France. June 1944.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Butch Cassidy - Notorious American train robber and bank robber - mugshot from 1894 - Wyoming Territorial Prison - Laramie, WY.6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Happy Father's Day! President John F. Kennedy with his son, John F. Kennedy, Jr., in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, DC - 25 May 1962.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
American casualties lying on stretchers aboard a landing craft, awaiting evacuation, Munda Point, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 12 Jul 19436yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The young Austrian Oak - Arnold Schwarzenegger posing at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London ~ 19686yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
THE END IS NEAR !!! Happy New Year !!! - War-time Londoners pose under the mistletoe 1940/19414yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Reading the newspaper outside his trailer home. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida. January 19411yr ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
ATS spotters, wearing sunglasses, watch for any sign of hostile aircraft at a London anti-aircraft battery. In front of them is a range-finder. September 19406yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Roza Shanina, Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Rasputin, mystical adviser in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Volunteer ambulance driver for the American Red Cross Motor Corps, 19174yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Allied soldiers in greatcoats warm themselves around a brazier, Egypt, North Africa. 11 July 1942.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
11 year old Cousins, Wendy Anderton and Cathie Jones pose with the tail section of a Heinkel He 111P-2 of 8./KG27 which crashed landed by their home at Border House Farm near Chester in Cheshire, August 14th 1940.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated combat soldiers of the second world war - he received every military combat award for valor available from the Army, as well as Belgian and French awards for heroism7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Two Moons, one of the Cheyenne chiefs who took part in the Battle of the Little Bighorn against the United States Army, 1910.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
German commando captured in American uniform is prepared for execution, 23 December 19445yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Fighting Sullivans - The Sullivan brothers - WWII sailors who, serving together on the USS Juneau, were all killed in action on its sinking (Nov.13.1942) - The Wreckage was just found6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Emperor Nicholas II and his son Alexei aboard the Imperial yacht Standart during King Edward VII's state visit to Russia in Reval, June 1908.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Joseph Goebbels (center) at the porcelain exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow 1934. Next to him are museum director Felix Koper (left) and director of the Krakow propaganda bureau Tadeusz Spalkowski (right).2yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Richard Davis Winters a.k.a. Dick Winters - officer of the United States Army and a decorated war veteran - portrayed by Damian Lewis in the 2001 HBO mini-series Band of Brothers.3yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The black sands of Iwo Jima: 2nd Battalion, 27th Marines landing on Iwo Jima, World War II.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
General Francisco Pancho Villa in 1914 - during the Mexican Revolution4yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Wounded WWI soldiers at Red Cross Headquarters in Vittel, France — 23 June 19183yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Schoolgirls design posters with women's equality themes as they compete for a prize in a suffrage poster contest at the Fine Arts Club, October 14, 1915.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1632, photographed here by Felice Beato ca. 18583yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Captain Bruce Ballantyne, Patrol commander of T Patrol, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), probably taken in the Western Desert, Libya, 1940-436yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The daughters of a Prussian Garde-Landwehr officer pose happily with their fathers helmet and sword during the hot summer days in July 1914.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Highway near Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, June 1940.1yr ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Albert Einstein receiving his United States citizenship certificate after his naturalization ceremony - Oct. 1, 1940.1yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Queen Victoria's coffin in the Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor Castle, 1901.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Astrid Kirchherr, the Woman Who First Photographed the Beatles - Self Portrait, 1960.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
‘Meal Break for Teamsters and Horses’, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1900.4yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Charlie Chaplin holding a puppet version of his character The Tramp - cca 19147yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A U.S. Navy hospital corpsman takes down the information of a U.S. Marine of the 1st Marine Division who was killed on the beach of Peleliu during the American landings of the Battle of Peleliu (Operation Stalemate II).6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Pvt John G. Winbury hugging his 2-year-old son Robert just before sailing to Hawaii with the 251st Coast Artillery, California National Guard - October 31, 1940, in Los Angeles, California. US.3yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Milorg resistance members from Modum in the mountains of Buskerud after receiving weapons and other military equipment from an air drop at Gulsvikseter between Eggedal and Hallingdal, Norway 1945.1yr ⋅ AutisticKnight ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper, 1853-1856.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The original glass plate is captioned 'Louis'. Photographed in near a German prisoner war camp in Douchy, France sometime in 1916.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Children waiting in line in front of a moving picture theater, Easter Sunday matinee, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.7yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Captain Robert Falcon Scott and other expedition members during the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 1911.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
French soliders including an Algerian Tirailleur serving at an Aid station of the 1st Zouaves regiment near Chaulnes (France) during the first world war. October 21st 19161yr ⋅ buba7q ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
WW1 Soldiers on Leave: Soldiers were not allowed on leave until 1915 as officers believed the war would be finished by the end of 1914.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
East German soldiers set up barbed-wire barricades, at the border separating East and West #Berlin, while West Berlin citizens watch. - August 13, 19612yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Franz Reichelt, an Austrian-born French tailor who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Five Malta-based pilots sitting in front of two fighter aircraft at Luqa. 19434yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Coming Home from the Marshes, 1886, by Peter Henry Emerson. Printed in the work Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads in the same year, photographed in East Anglia, England1yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Wounded WWI soldiers watches as Susanne Doue - a top art student of School of Fine Arts in Paris - sketches the portrait of a soldier — 19183yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A knocked out British tank with dead German soldiers next to it in Herenthage Park after the Battle of Langemarck, 1917.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Finnish soldier looks on at the burning town (probably Porajarvi, Karelia, Russia) in 19447yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, San Francisco, California. Monday morning December 8, 1941, day after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor1yr ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
