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.1yr · 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.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
A group of bootblacks gathers around an old Civil War veteran in Pennsylvania, 1935.1yr · 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.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia.1yr · 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.1yr · 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.1yr · 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.1yr · 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.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
American soldiers watch as the Tricolor flies from the Eiffel Tower again, c. 25 August 1944, Paris, France.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Winston Churchill as a Cornet in the 4th Queen's Hussar's Cavalry, 1895. He was 21 at the time.1yr · 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.11mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Orville Wright flying a glider over the dunes of North Carolina, 1902.1yr · 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, 1894.1yr · 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 1942.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
An unidentified American soldier, shot dead by a German sniper, clutches his rifle and hand grenade, March 1945, Coblenz, Germany.1yr · 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 1945.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Queen Victoria seated with her two Indian servants Mustafa and Chidda standing behind her in full uniform with medals.11mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Lyndon B. Johnson takes the oath of office aboard Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas following the assassination of JFK1yr · 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, 1945.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
This photograph of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, considered one of the most prolific figures in engineering history was taken 160 years ago.1yr · 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, 1926.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Soccer team of British WWI soldiers wearing gas masks, France, 1916.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
A photographer uses his own backdrop to mask Poland's World War II ruins while shooting a portrait in Warsaw, November 1946.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
A sniper from C Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch in position in a ruined building in Gennep, Holland, 14 February 1945.1yr · 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.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.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Charlie Chaplin attends the premiere of his newest film City Lights in Los Angeles, accompanied by Albert Einstein. February 2, 1931.2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Paratroopers of Easy Company (Band of Brothers), at Berghof (Adolf Hitler's home in the Bavarian Alps), 1945.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Chuck Yeager, the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Bodybuilder Gene Jantzen with wife Pat, and eleven-month-old son Kent, 1947.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Claude Monet, French artist and a leading member of the Impressionist group of painters was born in Paris #OnThisDay 1840.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
A US soldier stands amid crates and stacks of loot stored by Nazi Germany in Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Bavaria, 1945.1yr · 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, 1944.1yr · 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 1943.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
A 32-year-old mother of 7 children called Florence Owens Thompson, Nipomo, California. February 1936. (Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange).1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Winston Churchill was born #OnThisDay 1874. Here you can see him at the age of 24.1yr · 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 1945.1yr · 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, 1896.11mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Faces of Auschwitz: Janina Nowak. She was deported to the German Nazi Auschwitz camp on June 12, 1942.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Winston Churchill, his son Randolph and grandson Winston in coronation robes, 1953.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Unidentified soldier of the First AIF. The photograph was probably taken in Australia, pre-embarkation, sometime between 1915 and 1918.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
US Marine running through Japanese fire on Okinawa, Japan, 7 Jun 19452yr · 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 1962.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Rasputin, mystical adviser in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Roza Shanina, Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills.1yr · 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, 1910.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
[Colorized by me] The Jersey Shore circa 1905. On the beach, Asbury Park. [2974x2377]1yr · marinamaral · r/HistoryPorn
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).1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Men of 72 Highlanders who served in the Crimea: William Noble, Alexander Davison and John Harper, 1853-1856.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies wounded on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel, after being shot by an assailant, following his victory speech in the California primary election.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
On this day in 1903, the Wright Brothers made their first flight with a powered aircraft.7mo · marinamaral · 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.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Grace Kelly, American actress who became Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III, in April 1956.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
[Colorized by me] Winston Churchill, his son Randolph and grandson Winston in coronation robes, 1953. [2323x2373]1yr · marinamaral · r/HistoryPorn
American troops prepare nazi Major General Anton Dostler for execution for killing 15 OSS men, Italy, 1945.2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Napoleon's Grande Armée Veterans. These remarkable photographs provide probably the only surviving images of veterans of the Grande Armée and the Guard actually wearing their original uniforms and insignia. May 5, 1858 - Paris.1yr · marinamaral · 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.1yr · 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.3mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Queen Victoria, her collie dog Noble, and the Munshi, Abdul Karim. Taken in the Garden Cottage at Balmoral, 1894 or 1895.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
George Orwell - English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic.2yr · marinamaral · 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.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Recruiting sergeants at Westminster, London, Mitre and Dove pub, 1877.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Santa Claus with Christmas toys on a sled drawn by white turkeys, 1909.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Julia Ward Howe, 1909. She was an American poet and author, best known for writing The Battle Hymn of the Republic.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House - 12/21/19701yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing in Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945.4mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
[Colorized by me] A rare look behind the clockface of the Big Ben, ca. 1920. [960x1280]2yr · marinamaral · r/HistoryPorn
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. 1844.1yr · 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 está fumando (The snake is smoking) during the Italian Campaign, WWII.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Tsar Nicholas II and King George V in German military uniforms, Berlin, 19139mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Before and after the facial reconstruction of a wounded soldier during World War 1.2yr · marinamaral · 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.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Tsar Nicholas II, last Russian emperor who, with his wife and their children, was killed after the October Revolution.1yr · marinamaral · 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 1944.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Paris street in the June Days Uprising, Rue Saint-Maur, June 25, 18481yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Canadian soldiers celebrating after fighting on Vimy Ridge, April 1917.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Cooks of the 2nd Australian Battalion preparing bully-beef rissoles for the evening meal, Ypres, WWI11mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Marie Curie, the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, in her laboratory in Paris, 1912.2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his children with Cossack officers, 19162yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
(Colorized by me) Westminster Bridge with trams, London, 1918-1919 (1600x1223)1yr · marinamaral · r/HistoryPorn
Battle of Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; 1862.2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Colorized by me: Drinking fountain in Central Park on Sunday. New York, September 1942.3yr · marinamaral · r/OldSchoolCool
French and American soldiers at the altar of St. Joan of Arc Church (Basilique du Bois Chenu) near Domrémy, France. 9/15/1918.7mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Bull Chief, an Indian warrior, from the Apsaroke tribe. The photo was taken in 1908 by Edward S. Curtis.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
German Stormtrooper photographed on a French training ground exercise for the March 1918 Kaiserschlacht offensive, WW1.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Bringing Canadian wounded to the Field Dressing Station at Vimy Ridge in April 1917.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Southfields, New York. Interracial activities at camp Nathan Hale, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. First aid. August 1943.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
A posed photo of official artist Richard Jack at work on his iconic painting, The Second Battle of Ypres.2mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Powell in custody. April 14, 1865.3yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
On this day in 1905 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.2mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
On this day in 1944, more than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries placed at the Normandy assault area in preparation for D-Day2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
General Weygand, Admiral Wemyss and Marshall Foch after signing the armistice with Germany to mark the end of World War One.8mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
The day Al Capone arrived at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in California - 7 January 1939.2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
King Edward VII and Tsar Nicholas II pass by operation team on the yacht Standart, 1908.8mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, 19063yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
King Oscar II - King of Sweden from 1872 until his death, and the last Bernadotte King of Norway.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
A rare look behind the clockface of the Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower), ca. 1920.2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Two German soldiers read a newspaper before using it for another purpose, World War II2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Franz Joseph I of Austria, 1905. He was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and monarch of other states in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Franz Liszt was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
M7 Priest, 2nd Armored Division, at the intersection of Holgate Street and the Paris-Cherbourg Railway. June 18, 1944, Carentan.6mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Ho Chi Minh - led the Vietnamese nationalist movement for more than three decades, fighting against the Japanese, the French colonial power and the US-backed South Vietnamese.2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general's tent, September-October 1862.1yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Royal group, including Kaiser Wilhelm II and Edward VII, in the Crimson Drawing-Room at Windsor Castle, 17 November 1907.4mo · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Lynn D. “Buck” Compton, leader of the 2nd Platoon of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division.2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
King George V at Buckingham Palace in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of war.2yr · marinamaral · r/ColorizedHistory
Colorized by me: British Premier Sir Neville Chamberlain, on his return from talks with Hitler in Germany, at Heston airfield, London, England, on September 24, 1938. [1247x911]3yr · marinamaral · r/HistoryPorn
[Colorized by me] Building the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1881. [1000x731]8mo · marinamaral · r/HistoryPorn
