14 famous archival photographs in color

Together with color, old historical photographs gain new life and new value for the modern world. Monochrome shades make photos more difficult to perceive, they are more difficult to correlate with reality. You can not say about color frames that seem to the human eye much more understandable and familiar. This is probably why the colorization of archival photographs has now become such a sought-after and popular thing. We present to your attention another selection of the brightest moments of history, captured decades ago and brought to color today.

Allies before the offensive, 1945.

Boxing match aboard an American warship.

African American drinks from a drinking water machine. USA, Oklahoma, 1939.

Young John Kennedy after graduating from Harvard University in Cambridge, 1940.

Engineering equipment during the American Civil War, 1865.

British soldiers clean their onions in gas masks. Tobruk, October 15, 1941.

The Allies pose against the backdrop of a caricature aboard the B-29, 1944.

Washington postmen and their new electric scooters.

Native American fishing. America, Minnesota, 1908.

USA, New York, 1913.

People in Times Square read a running line of news on Allied Landing Day in Normandy. USA, 1944.

One of the most famous jazz singers in the 20th century.

Crimean (Yalta) Conference of the Allied Powers.

George Barchett at work in the 1930s.

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