We are one second in front of our history and even if we now have things that are making our life more easier or lazier we should not forget that not even 100 years ago a global war broke us to pieces. We now have self driving cars but we should not forget that the humble horse helped us build and destroy empires. This is our history and unfortunately or in some cases fortunately, we can only imagine the most of it because photography was invented not too long ago.

Speaking about photography, I’m sure that you to have been curious how it was back then because sadly most photos are black and white. Actually the lack of colors makes a picture feel old and if you somehow colorize it, you will feel that you are making part of the period of time from that image. In this article you can see a stunning collection of 28 very old black and white which have been colorized.

Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal. London 1945

Hindenburg Disaster – May 6, 1937

Japanese Archers circa 1860

View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864

Unemployed lumber worker, circa 1939

Audrey Hepburn

Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, NY

Joseph Goebbels scowling at photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after finding out he’s Jewish, 1933

Young boy in Baltimore slum area, July 1938

British troops cheerfully board their train for the first stage of their trip to the front – England, September 20, 1939

Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880

Walt Whitman, 1887

Mark Twain in the garden, circa 1900

Charlie Chaplin at the age of 27, 1916

Elizabeth Taylor – Giant (1956 film)

‘Old Gold’, Country store, 1939

Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921

Charles Darwin

Abraham Lincoln, 1865

Theodore Roosevelt

Anne Frank, 1942

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Thomas Edison

Nicola Tesla

H-Bomb Test

Kissing the War Goodbye, V-J Day August 14, 1945