LIVING COLOR 

 

By Jacob Shelton 

 

With colorization of a formerly black and white photo makes you feel like you're in the moment, not just looking at it through a screen ...  Not only do these photos jump off the screen with a vibrancy unmatched by their black and white counterparts, but some feature ... stories … 

 

 

 

(Source: Reddit)   11 year old cousins, Wendy Anderton and Cathie Jones pose with the tail section of a Heinkel He 111P - two of eight which crashed landed by their home at Border House Farm near Chester in Cheshire, 1940.

 
  
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(Source: Reddit)   Elvis Presley and His mother Gladys, 1956. 
  

(Source: Reddit)  Wartime Londoners pose under the mistletoe 1940. " Hitler will send no warning – so always carry your gas mask " 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Young Brigitte Bardot visits Pablo Picasso at his studio near Cannes, 1956. 
  

(Source: Reddit)  Howard Carter examines the innermost coffin of Tutankhamun, 1925. 
  

(Source: Reddit)  The Christmas Truce of 1914 brought a momentary end to the gunfire and shrapnel along the Western Front during World War I.   " How marvelously wonderful, yet how strange it was. The English

 

officers felt the same way about it. Thus Christmas, the celebration of Love, managed to bring mortal enemies together as friends for a time. " 
  

(Source: Reddit)    Major Charles Young in 1916. He was the third African-American to graduate from West Point, the first black U.S. National Park superintendent, and the first black man to become a Colonel. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Australian nurses ready to battle the influenza pandemic in Surrey Hills, Sydney in April 1919.  
  

(Source: Reddit)   Charlie Chaplin & Walt Disney at the Santa Anita Race Track - Arcadia, California, U.S. - 1939. 
  

(Source: Reddit)    Burial at sea aboard USS Hancock for those killed by Japanese special attack two days prior, off Okinawa, Japan, 9 Apr 1945.  
  

(Source: Reddit)    Tuskegee airmen at Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. 
  

(Source: Reddit)  "The man who started WW1" On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, photographed in his prison cell at the Terezín fortress,1914.  Gavrilo Princip , firing the first shot of World War I as he assassinated Arch Duke Ferdinand , [was]  a member of Young Bosnia, a group that sought to end Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina by any means necessary. 
  

(Source: Reddit) The United States Capitol in 1846.  In 1793, the cornerstone of the building was laid by President Washington . 
  

(Source: Reddit)  "Snipers in the furthermost line" - Photograph taken in early 1917.    A New York Sun  journalist wrote about a soldier who was a “Tennessee moonshiner” who “simply couldn’t stand discipline.”  His commanding officer said:  He’s the finest shot we’ve got; can pick an eye out of a Boche at 300 yards. When he draws a bead on one ,  it’s good night nurse, for he never lets loose until he’s certain. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   The March on Washington, August 28th, 1963. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Photographed near a German prisoner of war camp in Douchy, France sometime in 1916 ....   two French boys, orphans, one eight, and the other twelve years old, ... became attached to the troops in the most extraordinary way. They wore nothing by field gray, spoke fluent German, and saluted all officers in the prescribed manner. They spoke to their fellow-countrymen contemptuously and called them 'Schangels' as they heard the soldiers doing. Their great desire was to go into the line with their company... 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Billie Holiday and her Boxer named Mister at Downbeat club in New York, 1947. 
  

(Source: Reddit) Union soldiers posing with a cannon - circa 1862. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   The Statue of Liberty - Paris, France, 1886, before it was transported to America. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Jimmy Hoffa.  Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran ... was a high ranking official in the International Brotherhood of Teamster, and shortly before he passed away in 2003 he took the full credit for offing Jimmy Hoffa, which is quite the death bed statement. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Volunteer ambulance driver for the American Red Cross Motor Corps, 1917. 
  


  

(Source: Reddit)    Witches, 1875. Restored and reconstructed.   Are these real deal 19th century witches? Or is it just a group of friends having fun? We'll never really know if these gals are showing their witchy ways or goofing off,  ... 
  
  

(Source: Reddit)   General Francisco "Pancho" Villa in 1914, during the Mexican Revolution. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Mark Twain and his long-time friend, John T Lewis, standing together at Quarry Farm, Elmira, New York - 1903. 
  

(Source: Reddit)    WW1 Soldiers on [Xmas] Leave - Soldiers were not allowed on leave until 1915 as officers believed the war would be finished by the end of 1914. 
  

(Source: Reddit)    Schoolgirls design posters with women's equality themes as they compete for a prize in a suffrage poster contest at the Fine Arts Club, October 14, 1915. 
  

(Source: Reddit)    Charlie Chaplin selling war bonds on Wall Street, 1918. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Pauline Cushman, actress and a spy for the Union in the Civil War. Made brevet Major by President Lincoln for her efforts in the war. 1865. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Children in front of moving picture theater, Easter Sunday matinee, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois. 1941. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   "Watering cattle at Mount Kosciuszko," at Blue Lake, New South Wales, Australia, circa 1900. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Before Tiger King there was “King of Reptiles — Rattlesnake Joe” at Westchester County Fair, New York, ca 1910.  
  

(Source: Reddit)   African American flood victims lined up to get food and clothing at Red Cross relief station, 1937. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Chaplain Kenny Lynch conducts services north of Hwacheon, Korea, for men of the 31st Regiment. 1951, Korean War. 
  

(Source: Reddit)    Belle Isle ferry dock, Detroit, in 1905. 
  

(Source: Reddit)   Troop 446 Boy Scouts meeting in the community center of the Ida B. Wells Housing Project, Chicago, 1942. 
  

(Source: Reddit)    A busy market day at Jacques Cartier Square, Montreal, Canada in 1900. 
  

(Source: Reddit)    Five Malta-based pilots sitting in front of two fighter aircraft at Luqa. 1943. 
  
  

(Source: Reddit)  Flu ward at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918. 
  

(Source: Reddit)    Henry Brooks was born a slave in the mid 19th century. Taken 1941. 
  

(Source: Reddit)    Listen to what she has to say — British Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst addressing crowd on Wall Street, New York in 1911. 
  
  

(Source: Reddit)     Rural mailman transfers letters and packages to another postman's saddlebags — he will ride further up the side road and creek beds where no wagon or car can go. In the mountain section near Morehead, Kentucky, 1940. 
  
  
  

(Source: Reddit)    The daughters of a Prussian Garde-Landwehr officer pose happily with their fathers helmet and sword during the hot summer days in July 1914. 
  
  
  

(Source: Reddit)    The delegations signing the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors, 28 June 1919. 
  
  
  

(Source: Reddit)    The Schienenzeppelin in Berlin, June 1931. A train on the way to Hamburg passes the newly arrived rail zeppelin at Spandau main station.