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20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

The world has always been full of color, whether there were fancy cameras around to capture it or not.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Published 8 months ago in Wow

Although color photography has been around since the 1860s, it didn't become widespread until the 1960s. As a result, many of our favorite historical figures and iconic events have only come to us through a black and white lens. 


But older color photos exist, and the world has always been full of color, whether there were fancy cameras around to capture it or not. Here are 24 early color photographs that show the world has always been vibrant.

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    Moulin Rouge in Paris, from the archives of Albert Khan, 1914.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 2

    Christina in Red: 1913. A color photo featuring bold red, a color particularly suited to the autochrome process.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 3

    Rare color photo that capture street scene of Berlin in the 1930s.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 4

    Autochrome color photo of a couple walking in New York City, 1915.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 5

    Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington D.C., 1943.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 6

    Oldest known color photo, 1872. A view of Agen. By Louis Ducos Du Hauron.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 7

    Shark mouth on a German Bf-109, 1943.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 8

    Russian woman in the 1910s.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 9

    A rare color photo of Adolf Hitler which shows his true eye color.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 10

    1970 - We don't have such colorful cars anymore.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

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    Original color photo of Central Park in 1933, during the economic downturn.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 12

    Apprehensive GIs load onto a British landing craft for the invasion of Normandy. D-Day 1944.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 13

    A rare color photo of Nikola Tesla, 1928.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 14

    The original black-and-white Addams Family television set.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 15

    A color photo of Mao Zedong in 1924, in Shanghai.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 16

    Rare color photos from the first World War.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 17

    Russian building, 1920s.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

  • 18

    A full-color photo of Leo Tolstoy taken on May 23, 1908 at his residence at Yasnaya Polyana. This is said to be the first color portrait taken in Russia, and the only one of him in existence.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

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    Possibly the oldest surviving color photograph of a person, 1890-95. A portrait of the painter Albert Bierstadt, taken by his brother, Edward.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

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    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

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    Prokudin Gorsky in early 1900s Imperial Russia.

    20 Colorized Historical Pics that Bring The Vibrance

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