HistoryColored

Bringing History to life through sharing colorized photographs. History In Color. Credit to the image owners and colorizers I own no images posted.

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Leading seaman Eric Kirtland, of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (R.C.N.V.R.) shows off his tattoos. Photograph taken in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada on the 10 January 1943.

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#history #wwii #canada

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High School students crossing the street in Phoenix, Arizona, photographed by Russell Lee in May 1940.

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#history #phoenix #arizona

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People photographed waiting in front of Oxley's Drug Store in Southington, Connecticut in May 1942.

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Veterans of the Crimean War, (left to right) William Noble, Alexander Dawson, and John Harper, who served in the 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. Photograph taken by Cundall & Howlett in 1856.

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Two children looking towards the camera photographed by Arnold Genthe on a street in Chinatown, San Francisco in c. 1906.

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Two men riding on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a sidecar in Liège, Belgium in 1925.

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People gathered in Gebed zonder End alleyway in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, photographed by Jacob Olie in 1892. The name "Gebed zonder End" translates to "Prayer without an End" in English.

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A tintype cameraman on the streets of San Antonio, Texas photographed by Russell Lee in March 1939.

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Outside Café ‘t Kalfje by the Amstel river in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Photograph taken in c. 1911.

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A portrait of a man taken by Laurie Shea during the bushfires at Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia on the 4 February 1952.

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The neon lights of the drive-in restaurant Harry Carpenter's in Hollywood, California, photographed by Russell Lee at night in April 1942.

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A Belgian soldier sits by the roadside and opens a can of food using his bayonet. Photograph taken on the 20 October 1914.

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A couple poses for a photograph at the studio of Danish photographer Christian Franzen in Madrid, Spain in c. 1920.

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Hawaiian surfer Charles Kauha photographed carrying what was described as one of the last Alaia, a thin, round-nosed, square-tailed surfboard ridden in pre-20th century Hawaii. Photograph taken by Frank Davey at Waikiki Beach in c. 1898.

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Wounded German prisoners of war receive medical attention at the first-aid station of the 103rd and 104th Ambulance Companies, US Army. Photograph taken by Pvt. J. M. Liles in France on the 12 September 1918.

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A view of Notre-Dame and Pont Saint-Michel in Paris, France photographed in 1900.

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Swedish boxer Lars Söderberg and Polish boxer Roman Antczak shake hands after a tough match against each other. Söderberg won the fight. Photo taken in Stockholm, Sweden on the 14 January 1934.

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Veteran of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Reverend Levi Hayes, photographed in the 1840s. Hayes served as a fifer in a Connecticut regiment. Hayes was born in 1764 and died at the age of 83 in 1847.

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A diner along U.S. Highway No. 1 near Berwyn, Maryland photographed by Jack Delano in June 1940.

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#usa #diner #historycolored

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A Canadian soldier photographed walking through the Passchendaele battlefield in Belgium, in 1917 during the First World War.

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#history #wwi #passchendaele