Mark Twain and his long-time friend John T. Lewis, the inspiration for the character Jim in Huckleberry Finn, New York, 1903.1yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
African American boys on Easter morning. Southside, Chicago, Illinois. April 1941.1yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The delegations signing the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors, 28 June 1919.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The most intelligent picture ever taken: Participants of the 5th Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927. They are, among others: Albert Einstein, Marie S. Curie, and Niels Bohr. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Frederick Douglass, leader in the abolitionist movement and an early champion of women’s rights.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the death of Sophie Scholl. An anti-Nazi political activist, she was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the LMU with her brother, Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A group of bootblacks gathers around an old Civil War veteran in Pennsylvania, 1935.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Chaplain Kenny Lynch conducts services north of Hwacheon, Korea, for men of the 31st Regiment. 1951, Korean War.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Ruby Bridges escorted by U.S. Marshals to attend an all-white school, 1960. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
5-year old Harold Walker, picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Oklahoma, 1916.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Lyndon B. Johnson meeting with civil rights leaders Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young, and James Farmer in the Oval Office in 1964.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A German soldier with a saw tooth bayonet stands in a dugout wearing his brow plate slid down to his neck, World War I.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
This is the first photo I restored from a series taken by Alberto Henschel in Brazil before the slavery-abolition law in 1888.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Oregon, August 1939. Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Social Security number tattooed on his arm identifies him as Thomas Cave.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
100 years ago Mata Hari was shot after blowing a kiss at the French firing squad who executed her for accusations of being a spy.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Titanic Orphans, brothers Michel and Edmond Navratil, 1912. They were the only children to be rescued from the Titanic without a parent or guardian.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
American soldiers watch as the Tricolor flies from the Eiffel Tower again, c. 25 August 1944, Paris, France.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
#OnThisDay in 1895 In Paris, an express train overruns a buffer stop, crosses more than 30 meters of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Booker T. Washington - born into slavery, he put himself through school and became a teacher after the Civil War.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
African American flood victims lined up to get food and clothing at Red Cross relief station, 1937.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Winston Churchill as a Cornet in the 4th Queen's Hussar's Cavalry, 1895. He was 21 at the time.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Princess Elizabeth reading a book at Windsor Castle. June, 1940.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A U.S. Marine reaches through the barbed wire of a civilian containment area to give a young Japanese boy candy during the Battle of Tinian.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Queen Victoria and her family, including King Edward VII, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Frederick at a wedding in Coburg, Germany, 1894.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Orville Wright flying a glider over the dunes of North Carolina, 1902.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Eunice Hancock, a 21-year-old woman, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft plant during World War II. August 1942.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Henry Fournier, has been sweeper and cleaner for two months, 1911.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Red Army. Photo: The liberation of Bergen-Belsen, April 1945.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Australian soldier, Private George Dick Whittington, being aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari near Buna on 25 December 1942.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Lyndon B. Johnson takes the oath of office aboard Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas following the assassination of JFK7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Queen Victoria sitting in a carriage with Turi, her Pomeranian, circa 1895.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Queen Victoria seated with her two Indian servants Mustafa and Chidda standing behind her in full uniform with medals.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Dick Winters and his Easy Company (HBO's Band of Brothers) lounging at Eagle's Nest, Hitler's former residence in the Bavarian Alps, 1945.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
This photograph of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, considered one of the most prolific figures in engineering history was taken 160 years ago.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A. A. Milne was born on this day in 1882. He was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh. Photo: A.A. Milne, his son Christopher Robin, and the real Winnie The Pooh, 1926.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A photographer uses his own backdrop to mask Poland's World War II ruins while shooting a portrait in Warsaw, November 1946.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Soccer team of British WWI soldiers wearing gas masks, France, 1916.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A sniper from C Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch in position in a ruined building in Gennep, Holland, 14 February 1945.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Children in front of moving picture theater, Easter Sunday matinee, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois. 1941.4yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Ovitz family - a family of Jewish actors/traveling musicians who survived imprisonment at Auschwitz during World War II. Seven of them were dwarfs.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
U.S Marines crawling under enemy fire on a beach in Saipan. June, 1944.1yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, leave Sarajevo City Hall on June 28, 1914, shortly before they were killed. Within 30 days, WWI would begin.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Charlie Chaplin attends the premiere of his newest film City Lights in Los Angeles, accompanied by Albert Einstein. February 2, 1931.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Paratroopers of Easy Company (Band of Brothers), at Berghof (Adolf Hitler's home in the Bavarian Alps), 1945.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Chuck Yeager, the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Captured prisoners of the First World War from eight different nations at an unknown German prisoner of war camp.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Boy seated in the wreckage of a building after a bombing raid of London during World War II. Photo by Toni Frissell.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Bodybuilder Gene Jantzen with wife Pat, and eleven-month-old son Kent, 1947.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Claude Monet, French artist and a leading member of the Impressionist group of painters was born in Paris #OnThisDay 1840.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A US soldier stands amid crates and stacks of loot stored by Nazi Germany in Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Bavaria, 1945.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Four female pilots leaving their ship, Pistol Packin' Mama, at the four engine school at Lockbourne AAF. They are members of a group of Women Airforce Service Pilots who have been trained to ferry the B-17 Flying Fortresses. World War II, 1944.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Children looking at Xmas toys in a shop window. New York, circa 1910.2yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Waco, Texas, 1913.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ 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
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
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
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany with Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, circa 1913.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ 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
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
General Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses American paratroopers prior to D-Day.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ 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
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
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
Winston Churchill, his son Randolph and grandson Winston in coronation robes, 1953.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ 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
English children huddle in a trench during a German air raid, 1940.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Enlisted men of unit 5891-E with Red Cross Canteen Worker, Helen Alston, before sailing overseas, 1944.2yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ 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
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
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
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
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
[Colorized by me] The Jersey Shore circa 1905. On the beach, Asbury Park. [2974x2377]7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The black sands of Iwo Jima: 2nd Battalion, 27th Marines landing on Iwo Jima, World War II.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ 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
Queen Victoria's coffin in the Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor Castle, 1901.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ 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
Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper, 1853-1856.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Captain Robert Falcon Scott and other expedition members during the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 1911.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ 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
Addie Card, 12 years old. Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. August 1910.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On this day in 1903, the Wright Brothers made their first flight with a powered aircraft.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ 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
Americans stand on the site of the main altar in the historic Aachen Cathedral, World War II.3yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
