On the egg hill, the enemy's actions are carefully monitored. November 10, 1941. Lempaala, Finland.11mo ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Empress Alexandra of Russia, having her likeness modeled in clay, three years before the revolution of 1917.6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A German immigrant girl waits to be processed at Ellis Island - New York, 1926.5yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Shoe Repair promotional car in the shape of a shoe - in front of a Presbyterian Church in San Francisco California. 19226yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CH CBE (23 March 1929 – 3 March 2018) was a British middle-distance athlete, doctor and academic who ran the first sub-4-minute mile.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer and architect. He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Recruiting sergeants at Westminster, London, Mitre and Dove pub, 1877.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Portrait of Arthur Moore Lascelles, awarded the Victoria Cross: France, 7 November 1918.2yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Santa Claus with Christmas toys on a sled drawn by white turkeys, 1909.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
German Alpenkorps - Men of the Schneeschuh-Ersatzabteilung from Immenstadt training for their deployment at the front in the Allgau Alps. 19154yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Julia Ward Howe, 1909. She was an American poet and author, best known for writing The Battle Hymn of the Republic.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House - 12/21/19707yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
German Soldiers of the German Mortar Detachment in the Battle for Stalingrad August 19424yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Capture of William Joyce, aka Lord Haw Haw - Anglo-Irish Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster in Germany, May 1945.6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
1st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, then aged 74 or 75. His defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 puts him in the first rank of Britain's military heroes. 1844.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Brazilian Army Pvt. Francisco de Paula of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force prepares to load a 105 mm M2A1 howitzer, shoving a shell into the breech of his gun with the inscription “A cobra esta fumando (The snake is smoking) during the Italian Campaign, WWII.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Tsar Nicholas II and King George V in German military uniforms, Berlin, 19135yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Bardi-Jawi men on Jayirri island, King Sound gulf, in the north of Western Australia - 19174yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
This 13 year old German of the Hitler Youth captured by the 14th Armoured Division, 3rd US Army, in the vicinity of Martinszell-Waltenhofen, Germany on April 29, 1945.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
D-Day, Medics from the 2nd Naval Beach Battalion and the 261st Medical Medical Battalion, 1st Engineer Special Brigade assist a paratrooper as he steps onto the ramp of a LCVP that has pulled to Utah Beach at high tide.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Pte. Joseph Robert (Bob) Armstrong Lyons Killed in Action September 2, 19183yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Deck of a gunboat ( probably Mendota) during the US Civil war - ca 18656yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Clara Barton (1821–1912), founder of the American Red Cross - She was nicknamed as the “Angel of Battlefield”6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Three air raid wardens wearing a new type of gas mask (Invalid Helmet Respirator - designed for the elderly and those with chest complaints), during a mock gas attack in which tear gas was released on Esher's High Street. Esher, UK. - 5th April 19413yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Evelyn Nesbit (born Florence Evelyn Nesbit, December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On this day - Jackie Bouvier Kennedy and John F. Kennedy cutting the cake at their wedding - September 12, 1953, Newport, Rhode Island.7yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Before and after the facial reconstruction of a wounded soldier during World War 1.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
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 on December 19 1944.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Grand duchesses Tatiana and Olga Romanov. They were the daughters of the last Tsar of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia. All of the Romanovs were killed by the Bolsheviks.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A Captured British MK IV (Male) tank of Abteilung 11 or 12 at Wavrin, April 1918.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Christopher Robin and his fiancee Lesley de Selincourt - 21st April 19485yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Arming a Hawker Sea Hurricane fighter on board HMS Indomitable. Operation Pedestal, 12th AUGUST 19424yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Tsar Nicholas II, last Russian emperor who, with his wife and their children, was killed after the October Revolution.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The first Supermarine Spitfire to land in France, Normandy, on the afternoon of 10 June 1944.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The U.S. escort carrier USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90) en route to NAS Alameda, California with a deck load of war-weary planes in 1944. The planes visible on deck are eight Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats, 18 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters, and a Grumman J2F Duck amphibious biplane.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Cast members of The Great Ziegfeld on a beach from left to right: Wanda Perry, Bonnie Bannon, Monica Bannister, Claire Manners, Frances McInerny, Mary Lange and Claire Owens1yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Private Ramond L. Roth, from Mogadore, Ohio. - “ I was scared to death”, near Ramscheid, Germany. March 4th, 1945.8mo ⋅ formerherosander ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Squadron Leader Johnny Kent, with a group of Polish pilots of 303 squadron at RAF Northolt, leads his men away from a Hurricane in October 19404yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Henry Ford in his 1896 Quadricycle during a visit to Detroit - July 30, 19425yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On the Other Side writer, Australian (New Zealand-born) war correspondent, Kate Webb - 19686yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Burning F6F-5 Hellcat white 23 from VF-9 USS Lexington (CV-16) - 25 Feb 19456yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Tank crew with Sherman tank during training maneuvers. Camp Cooke, California. 28 March 1944.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his children with Cossack officers, 19167yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Paris street in the June Days Uprising, Rue Saint-Maur, June 25, 18486yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Canadian soldiers celebrating after fighting on Vimy Ridge, April 1917.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Major Robert Henry Cain VC TD (2 January 1909 – 2 May 1974) was a Manx recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.2yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A German prisoner of war captured near Ubach, Germany, wears a tag telling his captors that he has an injured back and should be handled carefully. 1 December 1944.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Unknown lieutenant, graduate of the Guards Artillery Corps of Pages in everyday uniform. Atelier A. Renz and F. Schrader. Imperial Russia, 190410mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928. Warhol was once advised by an art teacher to paint what he liked, which happened to be rather ordinary things.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
John Lennon and Yoko Ono bought a large billboard in Times Square in 1969 declaring that 'War is over if you want it'5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Two high ranking German officers being transported by soldiers of the US 4th Armored Division in a Ford GPW jeep - March 31 19455yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan at Antietam, October 2nd/3rd, 18627yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Daguerreotype of Passed Midshipman Kidder Randolph Breese, U.S.N., c. 1852 wearing his naval officers uniform with arms crossed, Breese was on the Perry expedition, during the Civil War served at New Orleans, Vicksburg, Ft. Fischer, and later at the Naval Academy2yr ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
German children watch U.S. Tanks of 87th Division, Third U.S. Army, enter town of Kobern, Germany. March 16, 19455yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Happy New Year ! (Yuri Gagarin at Carlsberg Brewery. Denmark - 21 September 1962)6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Charles Lindbergh - March 1927, San Diego. His legendary Spirit of St. Louis in the background.6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
RAF personnel and soldiers inspect Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 (W.Nr. 1988) 'RED 7' of 5./JG54, which belly-landed at Broom Hill, near Lydd, Kent at 9.30am on 25 October 1940. Oberleutnant Schypek was captured.2yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Hannchen Jacobsen and Rachel Johnsen taking a mirror self portrait together at their photo studio in Stavanger, Norway, early 1900s.10mo ⋅ AutisticKnight ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Cooks of the 2nd Australian Battalion preparing bully-beef rissoles for the evening meal, Ypres, WWI6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
HRH Princess Elizabeth watching parachutists during a visit to airborne forces at Netheravon Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire in England in the run-up to D-Day. 19 May 19445yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Capt. George Malcolm Ashmun - US. Marine Corps - VFW-214 Black Sheep Squadron (Posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism. He was shot down over Rabaul on 3 Jan 1944)6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A Sopwith Camel forced down and photographed at Clapham Junction at Zillebeke Flanders Belgium 26 September 1917.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Cinderella Man - James Walter Braddock in 1935 - American boxer - The world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 19376yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Oskar Schindler in 1963 - German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. Subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List.5yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Team US sailors are preparing to transfer a friend in need of medical care. Pacific theatre of war - 7 December 1941 – 2 September 19455yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Marie Curie, the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, in her laboratory in Paris, 1912.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Lt. Ted Hutchins of Port Charlotte, Fla. climbs out of his Kingfisher spotter-plane after coming back aboard the Battleship South Dakota off Okinawa in World War II. Ensign Stark, in the back cockpit, had just been rescued after his Hellcat fighter plane was shot down. Jan. 22, 19454yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Richard Pierce - 14 years of age, works as a Western Union Telegraph Messenger. with nine months of service. He works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes. Visits houses of prostitution. Wilmington, Delaware, ca. May 19107yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The patriarch of modern sculpture - Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer: Constantin Brancusi - 19266yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A very dapper secretary of the Embassy of Japan. Taketomi Toshihiko, seated with his wife. Washington D.C. October 24, 19227mo ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov among relatives and friends in the courtyard of his house on Sadovo-Kudrinskaya Street. Spring 1890.8mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Captain Manfred von Richtofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918) with the officers of the Jagdstaffel 11. From left to fight - unknown, unknown, Kurt Wolff, Ernst Udet, Werner Voss, unknown, Friedrich Noltenius, Karl Emil Schafer, unknown, Karl Allmenroder.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Winston Churchill, cigar in mouth, gives his famous ‘V’ sign during a visit to Bradford (Lister's Mill) on December 4, 19425yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
1915 - French soldiers & Red Cross Mercy dogs before departing for the Front - Tuileries Gardens (Place de la Concorde Gate) - Paris, France5yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Battle of Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; 1862.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Tsesarevna Maria Feodorovna, later Empress of Russia, and Princess Alexandra of Wales, later Queen Alexandra. England, 18736yr ⋅ salsifufu ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
French and American soldiers at the altar of St. Joan of Arc Church (Basilique du Bois Chenu) near Domremy, France. 9/15/1918.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A posed photo of official artist Richard Jack at work on his iconic painting, The Second Battle of Ypres.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Happy 4th of July ! - Women in a tableau pose, imitating Henry Mosler’s painting, The Birth of the Flag - 19175yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On November 27 1942, the Germans commenced Unternehmen Lila with the goal of occupying Toulon and seizing the French fleet.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Offiziersstellvertreter Edmund Nathanael (18 December 1889 – 11 May 1917) was a World War I flying ace credited with 15 aerial victories.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
10th Armored Division United States in the German city of Saarburg. February 22, 1945.In the foreground, an abandoned German 75-mm anti-tank gun PaK 40.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Hollywood songwriter Harry Carroll with chorus girls at his beach house in Santa Monica, California, 19297yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Bull Chief, an Indian warrior, from the Apsaroke tribe. The photo was taken in 1908 by Edward S. Curtis.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Servicemen and girls at the amusement park, Glen Echo, Maryland, April 19437yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Leading Aircraftmen Norman Bond of Swindon and William Webb of Addington, Surrey, carry a rocket projectile to load under the wing of Bristol Beaufighter Mark X, NE646 'V', of No. 211 Squadron RAF Detachment at Ranchi, India 19434yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Southfields, New York. Interracial activities at camp Nathan Hale, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. First aid. August 1943.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The French Angel - Maurice Tillet - Russian-born, French professional wrestler, rumored to have inspired Shrek6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
King George VI riding with his daughters Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) & Princess Margaret , in Windsor Great Park - 21 April 1939.5yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Mafia boss Charles 'Lucky' Luciano in exile. - Sicily, Italy, 31 December 19485yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
British 7th Armoured Division officers and a Canadian captain inspect a German PzKpfw IV Ausf H tank of Panzer Lehr Division, one of two knocked out by a 6-pdr anti-tank gun of the 6th Durham Light Infantry, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, near Douet, on 10 June 1944.2yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Babe Ruth, The Bambino, ca. 1920, around the time he would've joined the Yankees7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
'The Hello Girls' the women who ran the WWI switchboards - Six members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps preparing to ship off for France in 1918, where they and 217 other women served as switchboard operators.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Bluebird-Proteus CN7 is a gas turbine-powered vehicle that was driven by Donald Campbell and achieved the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in Australia on 17 July 1964.4yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Monty & Patton - Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery and Lt-Gen George S, Patton during the planning period of the Allied invasion - Palermo , Italy - 3rd Sep. 19434yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
King Edward VII - photographed in 1901 - King of the United Kingdom & the British Dominions and Emperor of India6yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
German Stormtrooper photographed on a French training ground exercise for the March 1918 Kaiserschlacht offensive, WW1.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Edgar Charles Badcoe (centre) and his Halifax crew of No.77 Squadron outside KN-C at Elvington airfield in 1943.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Bringing Canadian wounded to the Field Dressing Station at Vimy Ridge in April 1917.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
First woman to go into space - Valentina Tereshkova. In 1963, she spent almost three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times in her space capsule, Vostok 6.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On this day in 1905 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A French mademoiselle waves the French Tricolor in tribute to the forces which liberated her city as they march past the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. August 26, 1944.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri, awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California, 19367yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Presentation Of The Royal Humane Medal To Stoker S G Elvin Of HMS Skiddaw. 1940, Rosyth.3yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
