This stunning array of colourised photographs showcases a bygone era. Amongst them is a photograph of Union soldiers in 1863 during the American Civil War. Another one shows Madison Square in 1900. Most like a pilot receiving a haircut beside his plane during the Battle of Britain represent prosaic yet enlightening scenes.
WWII soldiers on Easter 1944
Winston Churchill, 1941
W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923
View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864
Union Soldiers taking a break in 1863
Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife 1939
Two Boxers after a fight
Times Square 1947
Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield
Samurai Training in 1860
Red Hawk of the Oglala Tribe on horseback 1905
President Lincoln with Major General McClelland and Allan
Pablo Picasso
Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer in 1933
Mark Twain in 1900
Marilyn Monroe
Madison Square Park New York City around 1900
Louis Armstrong practicing backstage in 1946
Louis Armstrong plays to his wife, Lucille, in Cairo, Egypt 1961
Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939. Photo taken right after his famous retirement speech
Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963, being transported to questioning before his murder trial
Joan Crawford on the set of Letty Lynton, 1932
Hindenburg Blimp crashes
Henry Ford, 1919
Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918
Girls delivering ice, 1918
Elizabeth Taylor in 1956
Country store in July 1939 Gordonton, North Carolina
Cornell Rowing Team 1914
Clint Eastwood, 1962
Clint Eastwood working on his 1958 Jag XK 120 in 1960
Claude Monet in 1923
Charlie Chaplin at 27 years old in 1916
Charles Darwin
Burger Flipper 1938
Brothers Robert Kennedy, Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy and John F. Kennedy outside the Oval Office
Brooklyn Bridge in 1904
British Soldiers Returning from the front in 1939
Brigadier General and actor Jimmy Stewart
Boys buying flowers in 1908
Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953
Baltimore Slums, 1938
Babe Ruth’s 1920 MLB debut
Audrey Hepburn
An RAF pilot getting a haircut while reading a book between missions
An Oklahoman farmer during the great dust bowl in 1939
American Poet Walt Whitman, 1868
Alfred Hitchcock
Albert Einstein, 1921
Albert Einstein on a Long Island beach in 1939
A car crash in Washington D.C. around 1921
1920s Australian mugshots from the New South Wales Police Dept
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