Addie Card, 12 years old. Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. August 1910.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Fox hunt drama at the Capitol! A mechanic on a motorcycle caught this escaped pet fox in Washington D.C., December 19193yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
His name is 'Karl', we don't know his family name, but he did have a 'Mona Lisa smile'. He served in 8th company Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 239 and had this photo taken somewhere in the Champagne in March 1917.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Burial at sea aboard USS Hancock for those killed by Japanese special attack two days prior, off Okinawa, Japan, 9 Apr 19454yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Happy World Bicycle Day! Here we have Alvey A. Adee, Assistant Secretary of State, age 72. Famously known for biking daily to his work in D.C. and his yearly biking tours to Europe - 19144yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On this day in 1903, the Wright Brothers made their first flight with a powered aircraft.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
100 years ago: Street scene in Antwerp, Belgium, showing citizens turning out for celebration a few hours after the Germans surrendered and an end of World War I. 11th November 19185yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Romanian peasant from Vrancea, sitting on the coffin he made for himself - 19376yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Steel worker in Pittsburgh steel mill. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. July 193811mo ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Frank Sinatra arrested on charges of seduction and adultery - Mugshot from 27 Nov 19385yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Duke of York (King George VI) riding in a round-a-bout at the Great Bookham fete - Surrey, England, UK. - June 19223yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama. Summer 19361yr ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Desmond Thomas Doss & his wife Dorothy after receiving the Medal of Honor from President Harry Truman on October 12, 19456yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Churchill celebrates his 69th birthday with Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, at the Victorian Drawing Room of the British Legation in Tehran, Iran, 30 Nov 19435yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Great Buddha of Kamakura, Japan, ca. 1863 as photographed by Felice Beato3yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
This Sunday marks 100 years since the Armistice was signed in November 1918, bringing an end to the First World War. - Celebrations in the U.S. following the end of the First World War. - Soldiers and civilians waving the Union Jack and stars and stripes.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Unloading bananas from steamer, New Orleans ca 1900 - close-ups in comments5yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
James Willis, Senior Riding instructor at the St. Petersburg Officer Cavalry School from 1898 to 19092yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Court of the Hotel Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, Florida, 1905.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
166th Infantry Regiment returning from raid, May 3rd, 1918. St Maurice, France.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The London smogs - poisonous combines of smoke and fog - reached their zenith during the 1950s6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Americans stand on the site of the main altar in the historic Aachen Cathedral, World War II.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Two riflemen from the 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division, take a moment to roll their own cigarettes in Goesdorf after 27 days of fighting - January 10, 19457yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Soviet Army soldiers manning a Maxim machine gun (lower right) and two others, one in a doorway and one in a second-floor window, take aim at German positions during the Battle of Berlin.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
19 December 1944 Members of the US 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, Company ‘C’ pose in front of an M-10. These men were credited with knocking out four s.SS/Pz Abt. 501 Panzer VI ‘King Tigers’ at or around Stavelot, Belgium.2yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Grace Kelly, American actress who became Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III, in April 1956.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Freight and passenger station. Fort Hunter, New York. October 19411yr ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Steel worker in Pittsburgh steel mill. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. July 193811mo ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill & U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Marrakesh, French Morocco, 24 January 1943, following the Casablanca Conference.5yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A Marine is transferred by Coast Guardsmen to a landing boat off the flaming shore of Iwo Jima, WWII.2yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
American troops prepare nazi Major General Anton Dostler for execution for killing 15 OSS men, Italy, 1945.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The first US Prisoners taken by German troops in World War One - during 'Unternehmen Jakobsbrunnen' (Operation Jacob's Well) on 2-3 November 19174yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Napoleon's Grande Armee Veterans. These remarkable photographs provide probably the only surviving images of veterans of the Grande Armee and the Guard actually wearing their original uniforms and insignia. May 5, 1858 - Paris.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL) patrol crosses a gorge in the GoenoengPanjang, Aceh, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. (1900 - 1920)2yr ⋅ ColorizedPieceofJake ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) The confidential code-breaking mastermind - An eccentric, exceptional mathematician, Turing headed the secret team of code-breakers during the Second World War that created an early computer that could decipher encrypted messages sent by the Germans.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Marriage Counselor, 1963 Reference Photo.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Edwardians riding exercise bikes whilst wearing day clothes in a gymnasium on board the Cunard line liner, RMS Franconia. Feb 21, 1911.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
An unidentified sniper of the Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 185 from Baden. around 1915/16.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Lumiere brothers (Louis on the left & Auguste on the right) in their laboratory - Lyon, ca. 19256yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On this day - Ralph Neppel wearing his newly awarded Medal of Honor around his neck, gets kissed in the White House by his fiancee, Jean Moore. - September 10, 19457yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
American soldiers aboard a US Coast Guard assault transport in the fateful trip across the English Channel. 6 June, 1944.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
US Civil War - Officers of the 69th New York Volunteer Regiment pose with a cannon at Fort Corcoran in 1861. (Col. Michael Corcoran at far left)7yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Karl Thurmann (4 September 1909 – 20 January 1943) Missing after sent his message: (Periscope not clear). U-553 was never heard from again.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing in Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
‘Senegal black at the bandage station Brussels - Etterbeek with frozen feet who fears to get killed because of being wounded’ 28 November 19143yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Stefania Cecylia Wojtulanis-Karpinska , aka Barbara (born on November 22, 1912 in Warsaw , died on February 12, 2005 in Los Angeles - captain pilot of the Polish Air Force.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Richard Davis Dick Winters - Officer of the United States Army and a decorated war veteran. He is best known for commanding Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, during World War II.6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Confederate soldier Richard Cecil Johnson of 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment, ca 18613yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
March 27, 1933: George Bernard Shaw, Marion Davies, Louis B Mayer and Clark Gable2yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The notorious Bran Castle - Brasov County, Transylvania , Romania - 1920s-30s3yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A British Tommy helping a German carry a German wounded man through the trenches, WWI.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Joel Emmanuel Hagglund, commonly known as Joe Hill (1879-1915)1yr ⋅ AutisticKnight ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Simone Segouin, also known by her nom de guerre Nicole Minet, a former French resistance fighter who served in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans group.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
L.A. river drag racing in the 1950s under the old 6th St Bridge.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Tommies observing the arrival of weaponry of the British army, in the surroundings of Cambrai, France, in December 1917.2yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Ruth Benedict, anthropologist and folklorist, in 1937. Known for her “patterns of culture” theory and author of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.1yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, on board a naval auxiliary patrol vessel during a visit to the London docks, 25 September 1940.6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
French WW1 refugees driven away by the German forces, resting at Lyon train station in Paris in 19183yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Chaplin & Gandhi - Canning Town, London, England, UK - Sep 22, 19313yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen 2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918, was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World War I.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Controversial american birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse : Margaret Higgins Sanger6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Petersburg, Va. Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards in front of tents. August 1864.2yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Pte Roland Carter and Pte Douglas Grant, Australian Imperial Force, during their time as Prisoners of War, 1918.6yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On this day in 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’ Reform in China.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Pistol Pete - Frank Eaton (1860-1958) > Career lawman in Oklahoma, US.6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Medical staff load an injured soldier onto a jeep. January 31, 1945.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
20th February 1946: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (1900 - 2002), accompanied by the two Princesses, in the royal box for the re-opening of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. They are watching a performance of Sleeping Beauty by the Sadler's Wells Ballet company.2yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, 17 June 1957.7yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, 'The Master of Suspense', date unknown5yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
American suffragist Mabel Vernon marches to the White House carrying a banner which reads Mr President, What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage, Washington DC, circa 1917.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Manfred von Richthofen in conversation with Hauptmann Rudolf Kleine and Oberleutnant Martin Gerlich of Kamfgeschwader 3. Two Albatros D.V are parked in the background - Richthofen & Kurt Wolf - Gontrode, East Flanders, in the first week of July 19173yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
WW1 Sniper with 121 kills, Gefreiter (corporal) Herrnreiter, a former poacher with an extensive civilian criminal record, once known as the best shot of the Bavarian Army, who was decorated with the coveted Bavarian Golden Military Merit Medal in January 19155yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Grady Carroll, 9 years old and his brother Ed, 10 years old, cotton pickers, 1913. Texas.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Guardsmen and troops, heading for war, attend services of worship on the after-deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport. WWII.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Rudolph Virchow, German anatomist and anthropologist, Director of the Pathological Institute of Berlin, shown lecturing - for the 200th birthday of Rudolf Virchow (13 October 1821 - 5 September 1902)2yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen playing against Mme Golding at the 1922 French Championships at the Croix-Catalan in Paris.2yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Queen Victoria, her collie dog Noble, and the Munshi, Abdul Karim. Taken in the Garden Cottage at Balmoral, 1894 or 1895.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Greenbelt Swimmers, Summer 1942, Maryland, United States by Majory Collins4yr ⋅ photojacker ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
90 Years since Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)5yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
George Orwell - English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A.P. Chekhov reading his play The Seagull to the artists of the Moscow Art Theater, 18991yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
BLACK BRITISH WWI FORCES - West Indian men serving in the British Navy, in the Fleet Auxillary. July 19176yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Portrait of Tasker Watkins, awarded the Victoria Cross: France, 16 August 1944.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Soviet soldiers inspect the downed Japanese plane. Mongolia, Khalkhin Gol, 19392yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
American pilots of No 71 'Eagle' Squadron rush to their Hawker Hurricanes at Kirton-in-Lindsey, 17 March 1941.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
All Help for Russia Now - Factory workers ride on Valentine Mk2 tanks as they leave a factory in Smethwick - September 22, 19416yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Theodore Roosevelt holding his Grandson, Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 19167yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Munitionnettes - February 1916 Production of the so-called Crapouillots the 20 kg Medium A.L.S bombs for the 58mm French trench mortar.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A different kind of lockdown in different times: Ludgate Hill on 15 September 1940 while RE Bomb Disposal engineers are removing a bomb from under St Pauls Cathedral.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
George & Barbara Bush in 1966, celebrating George's election to the House of Representatives6yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
U.S. Marines raise a large American flag to replace a smaller flag first raised at the summit of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Singer Anastasia Vyaltseva, St. Petersburg, 1910. Photo by studio Renz and Schrader1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
