By converting these historic photographs into colour, they present history in a different light.
Main picture: A young newspaper vendor sells newspapers in 1912 in London announcing the sinking of the Titanic.
I had no option but to slip some photographs of a young Aubrey Hepburn in amongst the other more serious photographs.
African-American troops posing beside an artillery piece over Easter 1945
A magesterial Robert E Lee shortly after surrending at Appomattox at the end of the American Civil War in 1865
The Curb Market in New York City circa 1900
Aubrey Hepburn in the early 1950’s
D-Day June 1944
A pensive Charles Darwin posing for a photograph after fame had struck
A vivacious Aubrey Hepburn in 1953
Albery Einstein in 1921 in an atypical non-dishevelled pose
Abraham Lincoln
Elizabeth Taylor in 1956
Helen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin in 1919
A clam seller in Little Italy, New York City circa 1900
A pair of Civil War veterans on the 50th anniversary of the Batlle of Gettysburg in 1913
Artists creating propaganda in 1942
The inventor of the bullet proof vest tests a prototype in 1932
Demonstrators protesting against school integration at Little Rock Arkansas in 1959
Girls unloading ice in 1918
Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before he was assissinated by Jack Ruby
A Royal Airforce pilot receiving a haircut between missions during the Battle of Britain
A Nihang bodyguard serving in the Nizam of Hyderabad’s irregular Sikh army. In his right hand he holds a khanda sword, and in his left a ball and chain flail. The all-steel chillanum dagger in his cummerbund is traditionally associated with southern India. He also wears a shield, a second sword and a pistol, the butt of which is visible under his left arm. His battle-turban is fortified with razor-sharp steel quoits, miniature sword blades and steel chains.
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