Big John: 1942 November 1942. Pittsburgh (vicinity). Montour No. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Coal miner waiting to go underground. Medium-format nitrate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information.1yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
January 1941. Sarasota, Florida. Guests of Sarasota trailer park picnicking at the beach. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott.1yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
Soldiers laughing to the Bob Hope show at Seoul, Korea. Oct. 23, 19504yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
[USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Strike captain during protest by the packing house workers, March 1948. ] Wayne Miller 1948 USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Strike captain during protest4yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
September 1940. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman, Polish tobacco farmers near Windsor Locks, Connecticut.4yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
General John J. Pershing, who commanded the U.S. Army in Europe during World War I, is seen during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery in 1925.5yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
July 1939. Young North Carolinian in old Ford. He does not farm. 'Works for wages.' At Tuck's filling station. Person County, N.C.4yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
William Huravitch, farmer in Truax Township, Williams County, North Dakota-19375yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
October 1935. Russ Nicholson, grandfather of all the Nicholsons in Nicholson Hollow. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.5yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
Two rangers engage snipers holed up in a warehouse at Arzew Harbor,Algeria-19436yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
Rex Inman, farmer, near Estherville, Iowa, rolling a cigarette. Very few farmers smoke tailor mades6yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
New York circa 1921. Miller. Stage actress Marilyn Miller in the driver's seat George Grantham Bain Collection5yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California-Photographer - Dorothea Lange-November 19365yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
Russ Nicholson, grandfather of all the Nicholsons in Nicholson Hollow, Virginia8yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
A young girl enjoys a cup of tea courtesy of the advancing Allied armies in a sector of Europe now cleared of Hitler's troops. 19449yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
An American sentry watches an enemy tank column burn near El Guettar, Tunisia, 1943.Photo by Phil Stern6yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
US Marine inspects a foxhole during the Battle of Guam, by LIFE photographer W. Eugene Smith.7yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
One of the oldest inhabitants in the village of Nethers, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia8yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bomber of bombing squadron VB-5 from the USS Yorktown (CV-10) over Wake Island, 5 or 6 October 1943. Photographed by LT Charles Kerlee of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit commanded by LCDR Edward Steichen.9yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
Resting in front of general store, Blankenship, Martin County, Indiana7yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
Army Rangers entering Comiso,Italy as part of the the Sicilian Campaign, 1943.6yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization
US Marine running through Japanese fire on Okinawa, Japan, 7 Jun 1945.8yr ⋅ bcpowder789 ⋅ r/Colorization