Some Very Rare And Colourised Historical Photographs

                                                                   

Many of these colourised pictures are featured in this You Tube clip as well as other pictures.

Up until the 1970s, color photography was rare. Thus, our vision of history is so often in black and white only. Rare colorized historical photos are our only chance at seeing what the world really looked like...and, boy, was it spectacular.

 Louis Armstrong plays to his wife, Lucille, in Cairo, Egypt 1961

 

 
Brothers Robert Kennedy, Edward "Ted" Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy outside the Oval Office.

                                                             

Clint Eastwood working on his 1958 Jag XK 120 in 1960  

                                                                             

Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield

                                                                 

Louis Armstrong practicing backstage in 1946

                                                                 

 Red Hawk of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on horseback, 1905
                                                                 

Clint Eastwood, 1962 

                                                                    

Charlie Chaplin at 27 years old in 1916

                                                               

 Elizabeth Taylor in 1956

                                                                       

 Claude Monet in 1923
                              
                                                                          

Brigadier General and actor Jimmy Stewart

Stewart flew 20 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, and even flew one mission during Vietnam.

  
                                                                 

Pablo Picasso

                                                                     

Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918

                                                                       

 Girls delivering ice 1918

                               
                                                                

 

                                                                       

 

Mark Twain 1900

 

                                                                   

 

 

 Winston Churchill 1941

                    

                                                                      

Albert Einstein in 1921


                                                                     

Marilyn Monroe

                                                                   

Hindenburg Blimp crash

                                                                     

British Soldiers Returning from the front in 1939 

                                                                 

Joan Crawford on the set of Letty Lynton, 1932

                                                                 

Audrey Hepburn


                                                                     

 Union Soldiers taking a break 1863 - General Custer in front with the dog.

                                                                  

An Oklahoman farmer during the great dust bowl in 1939

                                                                       

 
By Jake Heppner. 
 
Pictures all from Distractify and there are more there.Click on image to enlarge.

Many thanks to Jared for sending me these.
                                                                     

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