Ambient_ Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 (edited) Post your favourite colourised historical photos (formerly in B&W or very rare colour photographs) below! I'm interested to see the pictures you may find or possess. This is from the American Civil War Vietnam war protestor African Americans in-line for food, circa 1937 Edited June 12, 2015 by Ambient_ etertaisyCaleze, Flachbau, Shaundi. and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abel. Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Jewish children and their instructor in Tsarist Russia: More: http://www.gridenko.com/pg Shaundi., Davo the Assassin, LiniArc and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyabang Shyabang Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 19th century geisha: Russian princesses: Abel., LiniArc, Slam_Jones and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slam_Jones Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Awesome photos! I always find colorized pictures like this very interesting. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducard Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 The big three (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) at the Yalta Conference in 1945: Shyabang Shyabang, Femme Fatale, Skeever and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacymist Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Mary Magdalene Church. City of Perm. Kama river near Perm. Monastery of St. Nilus. All of these photos were taken in 1910. Slam_Jones, Fonz, Abel. and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krashr Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 historical babe original Majestic81, Skeever, Clem Fandango and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducard Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Times Square 1947: Lee Harvey Oswald before his murder trail for the assassination of John F Kennedy, 1963: Albert Einstein, 1939: Abraham Lincoln, 1862: Shaundi., Slam_Jones, Skeever and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majestic81 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Slam_Jones, Skeever, The Dedito Gae and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner71 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Kama river near Perm. Beautiful, so peaceful. Nice thread, by the way. Two U.S. soldiers of C Company, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division seek shelter behind a M-4 Sherman tank at Geich, near Düren, Germany, on 11 December 1944. Femme Fatale, Davo the Assassin, Skeever and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der_Don Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Italian POW after the second battle of the Isonzo in 1915 French kid in Paris in 1915 The Farman MF 11 Shorthorn in 1916 French soldiers having a pause during the second battle of the Aisne in 1917 Military equipment at Champs-Elysées in Paris, 1919 Abel., Shaundi., Shyabang Shyabang and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Ace Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Do .GIFs count? This one had me speechless: Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. H plowing through some foliage. Davo the Assassin, Femme Fatale, Shaundi. and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai®a©ob®a Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) Surprise nobody posted this one.. A "Kocker-Up" waking up people in the 1900's Horseman Picture 1920 Mass of melted nuclear fuel in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Russian Solider after Chernobyl Can you spot Osama Bin Laden? Queen Elizabeth during her WWII Service None of these are in color but they're definitely worth looking at Edited June 14, 2015 by Troubadour Slam_Jones, DarkSavageDeathlyCloud and Femme Fatale 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Ace Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 S o Tank Man has got to be one of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai®a©ob®a Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 S o Tank Man has got to be one of my favorites. Here's a photo of Tank Man Davo the Assassin and Zapp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Ace Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Wow great find! I've never seen the event from that angle before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
make total destroy Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 -Picture of Tankman -Two non-colorized photos -Pictures from Chernobyl m8 i don't think you're doing this right 17-year-old communist Marina Ginesta poses on the rooftop of Hotel Colón over-looking Barcelona on July 21, 1936, days after civil war erupted in Spain. Der_Don, walkingsickness, Shaundi. and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Ace Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) Wrecked KV-2 being inspected. Look at the size of the ammunition on the engine deck: Edited June 14, 2015 by Amazing Ace Slam_Jones and Shyabang Shyabang 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemoyne outlaw Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Post your favourite colourised historical photos (formerly in B&W or very rare colour photographs) below! I'm interested to see the pictures you may find or possess. This is from the American Civil War holy crap that looks like it was right out of a movie. its beutiful! does anyone else have more civil war photos like this? DarkSavageDeathlyCloud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Testarossa Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, 1935. Women painting WWII propaganda, 1942. Hindenburg crash, 1937. Nikola Tesla, 1893. The Beatles, 1963. Slam_Jones, Shaundi., Jehannum and 6 others 9 twitter // instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingsickness Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Just as a suggestion...you know how we have the "like" feature on here? Maybe we can one like that for threads like this, just for the pictures though. Just throwing it out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambient_ Posted June 15, 2015 Author Share Posted June 15, 2015 Operation Crossroads, 1946 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete4000uk Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 It's sometimes easy to forget that historical events were in colour. Great thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algonquin Assassin Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Wow. Seeing these photos in colour is pretty amazing. Fact- when I was a kid I always made the assumption that's what the world looked like through photos at the time. Black and white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillBellic Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Wow. Seeing these photos in colour is pretty amazing. Fact- when I was a kid I always made the assumption that's what the world looked like through photos at the time. Black and white. Same here, Mate. Algonquin Assassin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducard Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 (edited) Wow. Seeing these photos in colour is pretty amazing. Fact- when I was a kid I always made the assumption that's what the world looked like through photos at the time. Black and white. Same here, Mate. Was this post really necessary? Seriously, stop trying to increase your post count for the sake of it. Clint Eastwood 1962: Mark Twain, 1900: The three Kennedy brothers, Robert, Edward and John outside the Oval office: Edited June 16, 2015 by Ducard Shyabang Shyabang, Femme Fatale and DarkSavageDeathlyCloud 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anubis871 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 (edited) A wrecked mark IV tank with fake German markings. A crashed hellcat during ww2. And last one, a car crash sometime around the 1920's. Edited June 16, 2015 by TheThorToaster Ducard, Femme Fatale, Shyabang Shyabang and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigsters Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 The Bygone Practice of Foot Binding in China DarkSavageDeathlyCloud 1 "You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." On the Waterfront 1954 M.Brando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducard Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 (edited) Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the final days of his life during a historic meeting with King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia on board the USS Quincy, 1945. I'm glad to see I'm not the only history buff here, great pictures everyone! Edited June 16, 2015 by Ducard Femme Fatale, Shyabang Shyabang and Abel. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9i OTD Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 (edited) Can you spot Osama Bin Laden? Second from the right, wearing the green sweater. I believe he was on a family shopping trip during the late 60s or early 70s IIRC. Edited June 17, 2015 by Hocko1999_fgc Ai®a©ob®a and DarkSavageDeathlyCloud 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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