Tuesday 5 August 2014

Awesome “Colorized” Photos From Last Century

Prior to the 1970s, color photography was hard to come by. These photos below have been “colorized” to help us visualize what the world that we only know as black and white looked like. It’s quite jaw-dropping to see the likes of Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein in living color. The world has always been a marvelous place, but these photos make it all the more incredible.
Winston Churchill, 1941

Albert Einstein, 1921
Albert Einstein on a Long Island beach in 1939
Mark Twain in 1900
Charles Darwin
Pablo Picasso
Charlie Chaplin at 27 years old in 1916
Marilyn Monroe
Elizabeth Taylor in 1956
Audrey Hepburn
British Soldiers Returning from the front in 1939
Country store in July 1939. Gordonton, North Carolina
Girls delivering ice, 1918
Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918
Hindenburg Blimp crash
Madison Square Park New York City around 1900
Times Square 1947
A Washington, D.C. filling station in 1924

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