54 incredibili foto dal passato, tornano a nuova vita grazie ad alcuni appassionati che hanno deciso di ricolorarle.
In questo post di inspire52.com sono state raccolte una serie di foto colorate a mano o digitali che regalano una visione nuova dell’epoca a cui le immagini appartengono.

Beh, si magari un po’ artefatta ma che ha comunque il suo fascino.

Altre foto “colorate” sono disponibili sul sito e il profilo Facebook di Dana Keller, sul sito e profilo Facebook di Jordan J. Lloyd, sulla pagina di Facebook di Paul Edwards, e sul profilo Facebook di Patty Allison.

Claude Monet in 1923

Source: Dana Keller

Brigadier General and actor Jimmy Stewart
Stewart flew 20 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, and even flew one mission during Vietnam.

Pablo Picasso

Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939
Photo taken right after his famous retirement speech. He would pass away just two years later from ALS.

Times Square 1947

Source: Jordan J. Lloyd

Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963, being transported to questioning
before his murder trial for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918

Girls delivering ice, 1918

Source: Dana Keller

Burger Flipper 1938

Source: Jordan J. Lloyd

Winston Churchill, 1941

Albert Einstein, 1921

Source: Dana Keller

Madison Square Park New York City around 1900

Marilyn Monroe

Samurai Training, 1860

Source: Jordan J. Lloyd

American Poet Walt Whitman, 1868

Hindenburg Blimp crash

Source: Dana Keller

British Soldiers Returning from the front in 1939

Joan Crawford on the set of Letty Lynton, 1932

Country store in July 1939. Gordonton, North Carolina

Mark Twain in 1900

Albert Einstein on a Long Island beach in 1939

Source: Paul Edwards

Audrey Hepburn

Source: Dana Keller

 Union Soldiers taking a break 1863

Charles Darwin

WWII soldiers on Easter

Clint Eastwood, 1962

Source: Paul Edwards

W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923

Charlie Chaplin at 27 years old in 1916

Elizabeth Taylor in 1956

Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953

Louis Armstrong practicing backstage in 1946

Source: Dana Keller

Red Hawk of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on horseback, 1905

Source: Dana Keller

Babe Ruth’s 1920 MLB debut

Source: Dana Keller

A Washington, D.C. filling station in 1924

Source: Patty Allison

Boys buying flowers in 1908

Source: Dana Keller

An Oklahoman farmer during the great dust bowl in 1939

Louis Armstrong plays to his wife, Lucille, in Cairo, Egypt, 1961

Source: Jordan J. Lloyd

Brooklyn Bridge in 1904

Source: Dana Keller

Two Boxers after a fight

1920s Australian mugshot from the New South Wales Police Dept

Source: Dana Keller

Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield

Brothers Robert Kennedy, Edward “Ted” Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy outside the Oval Office.

Clint Eastwood working on his 1958 Jag XK 120 in 1960

Cornell Rowing Team 1907

View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864

Baltimore Slums, 1938

Source: Jordan J. Lloyd

Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933

Henry Ford, 1919

Source: Dana Keller

An RAF pilot getting a haircut while reading a book between missions.

edit: This image was not colorized, but it’s still unreal.

Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife 1939

Alfred Hitchcock

A car crash in Washington D.C. around 1921

President Lincoln with Major General McClernand and Allan Pinkerton at Antietam in 1862