17 Historic Black and White Photographs Restored In Colour

Its amazing to think that some of these historic photographs are now over 100 years old, but thanks to the amazing job done by those restoring them, we can now enjoy them in full colour. The result is amazing.

1. Flippin’ Burgers. Crowley, Louisiana, USA – October 1928.

2. Women Delivering Ice, 1918.

3. Easter Eggs for Hitler, c 1944-1945.

4. Mug shot of William Stanley Moore, 1 May 1925. Central Police Station, Sydney.

5. Painting WWII Propaganda Posters. Port Washington, New York – 8 July 1942.

6. Titanic sinks April 15, 1912. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of the disaster. (April 16, 1912)

7. “The Red Baron”, Manfred von Richthofe – ca 1917.

8. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge ca 1935.

9. Marilyn Monroe, 1957.

10. Louis Armstrong practicing in his dressing room, ca 1946.

11. Portrait Used to Design the Penny. President Lincoln Meets General McClellan – Antietam, Maryland ca September 1862.

12. Babe Ruth the Year He Joined the New York Yankees, 1920.

13. Norman Rockwell Entering his Stockbridge Studio. Massachusetts, 1966.

14. Sergeant George Camblair practicing with a gas mask in a smokescreen – Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942.

15. Lou Gehrig’s Farewell Speech – 4 July 1939.

16. Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father, revisiting the attic they spent the war in, 3 May 1960

17. Young Woman with Umbrella – Louisiana, 1937.

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