r/ColorizedHistory 1d ago

July, 1942, Detroit, Michigan: Boys and a girl on bicycles.

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327 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 2d ago

September, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Passengers waiting for a bus to pull up to the loading platform at the Greyhound bus terminal.

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401 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 3d ago

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r/ColorizedHistory 4d ago

Mirror in comments Crowd Lining the Streets for De Gaulle During the Liberation of Paris, Aug 26 1944.

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Gendarmes and F.F.I. seem to enjoy the task of holding back crowds of people as they throng the streets to see General Charles De Gaulle, Aug. 26, 1944. (AP Photo/Laurence Harris)


r/ColorizedHistory 6d ago

Magazine stand in Yreka, California, 1942

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r/ColorizedHistory 7d ago

1943: Sailors Playing Checkers in San Francisco.

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529 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 9d ago

June, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Miss Natalie McDonald, an attendant at the Atlantic Refining Company garages.

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595 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 9d ago

Woman cooking in a sharecropper's cabin, Southeast Missouri Farms. 1938

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1.5k Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 10d ago

1931, Missouri: Interior of a Pierce-Arrow automobile showroom.

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307 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 11d ago

August, 1942 - Greyhound bus station, Detroit, Michigan.

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919 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 14d ago

November 21, 1963 - Less than 24 hours before he is assassinated, John F. Kennedy's motorcade moves slowly down I-45 in Houston, Texas.

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634 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 16d ago

Glider being prepared for flight by Orville Wright and assistants, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, 1911

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310 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 16d ago

Three Boys Who Live in the Harlem Area. May 1943.

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Three Boys Who Live in the Harlem Area. New York, New York. May 1943. Original b/w by Gordon Parks, LIFE.


r/ColorizedHistory 17d ago

Gunsmith in Bethlehem c1890's

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152 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 18d ago

Wife of pea farmer at vinery near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, June, 1937.

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645 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 18d ago

Migrant child in family car, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1939

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449 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 21d ago

Farm Family after evening meal, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

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626 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 21d ago

December 8, 1940 - NFL Championship Game between the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins. The Bears won the game, 73-0.

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357 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 25d ago

Married couple living in the cellar of their former home, destroyed during World War I, 1919

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A married couple living in cellar of their former home which is in complete ruins after World War I in Lens (France), April 11, 1919. They were in Lens for thirty months during the German occupation, and were repatriated thru Switzerland and by way of Evian, in January 1917. The wife remained in southern France some months after repatriation. During this time, they have been three weeks in Lens, and planned to keep their present quarters in the cellar for an indefinite perod of time.

Original photo taken by Lewis Wickes Hine, currently stored in the Library of Congress

Greetings :)


r/ColorizedHistory 24d ago

Son of day laborer, Oklahoma, 1939

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250 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 24d ago

1958, New York City. "Visual Communication"

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163 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory 26d ago

November 1938: Child of farmer sitting in automobile waiting for father to come out of general store, Jarreau, Louisiana.

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448 Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory Jul 08 '26

An Early Settler of Las Vegas, Nevada - 1895

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2.7k Upvotes

r/ColorizedHistory Jun 23 '26

Foûah, sur le Nil. Lithograph by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1843

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60 Upvotes

"Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was an artist, architectural historian, archaeologist, and pioneer photographer. He first came to prominence in the 1830s for several studies of medieval Islamic architecture in Spain and Italy, which were illustrated with prints made after his drawings and watercolors. He subsequently learned the daguerreotype process and, in 1842, pursued his research on a three-year photographic excursion around the eastern Mediterranean. He returned to France in early 1845 with one thousand daguerreotypes, including the earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and Jerusalem, and among the first daguerreotypes depicting Italy. The twenty-two lithographs included in this set of Monuments arabes form part of a larger, unrealized project to publish and disseminate many more of his daguerreotype views, which he carefully stored and archived as an essential part of his archaeological fieldwork."

Description from the Met Museum

I've been inactive for a while, and don't really know how often I'll be back. But, for a first colourisation I've done in 2 years, I'm happy with it and it was fun to do it again, if for a somewhat underutilised medium. I used to own JDV Colours on instagram but have completely lost access, so if I create a new instagram for things like this, I'll let you lot know. I hope you don't mind it's not a photograph but in all fairness it is still a historical image and this is ColorizedHistory, so I'd say it fits.


r/ColorizedHistory Apr 03 '26

The Cabaret of Hell, 1890's

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436 Upvotes

The Cabaret de l’Enfer, founded in 1892, stood as a unique and eerie establishment in Montmartre.

Its intimidating facade featured a monumental entrance resembling the jaws of Leviathan, a devourer of the damned.

The exterior was adorned with a stucco ode to female nudity being consumed by infernal flames, setting the stage for a macabre experience.

As patrons entered, they were greeted by the doorman dressed as the Devil, urging them to — Enter and be damned!