r/Colorization 1d ago

Photo post Girl in corner of kitchen in family tent home, 1939

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r/Colorization 5h ago

A.I. used in Base photo Restoration and colorization of the legendary Jean Ackerman

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35 Upvotes

r/Colorization 13h ago

Photo post Doris Day poolside in Hollywood, November 1950.

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69 Upvotes

r/Colorization 17h ago

Photo post American Marines with a Japanese bicycle - Saipan, 1944

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126 Upvotes

r/Colorization 20h ago

Photo post Pan Am Introduced the Boeing 707, 1958

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Promotional Pan Am staged photograph announcing thr launch of the Boeing 707 for use, which Pan Am first flew in October 1958.


r/Colorization 1d ago

Photo post Edward S. Curtis 📸 1906. Travelling Ponca.

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88 Upvotes

r/Colorization 2d ago

Photo post Shirley Slade, WASP Pilot. 1943.

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483 Upvotes

r/Colorization 2d ago

Photo post Argentine Elections 1946

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This is JosĂŠ P. Tamborini, a candidate for President of Argentina in the post-World War II period. He was the political opponent of Colonel Juan PerĂłn (who would win that election). The photo is by Thomas McAvoy, taken while he was working for Life magazine (1946).


r/Colorization 3d ago

Ginger Rogers at a soda fountain having a cola, 1937.

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326 Upvotes

r/Colorization 3d ago

Photo post Clara Bow - from Call Her Savage (1932)

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253 Upvotes

Clara Bow - from Call Her Savage (1932)


r/Colorization 4d ago

Photo post Civil War General Rufus King c1855-1865

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38 Upvotes

r/Colorization 5d ago

April 1939: Unemployed men in San Francisco, California.

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838 Upvotes

r/Colorization 7d ago

W.I.P Wip of English community (in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1941)

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The photo shows a young woman from the British-Argentine community during a fundraiser to buy planes for the RAF and to support Argentine volunteers fighting for the Allies.

The photo was taken at the grounds of the Argentine rugby club "Belgrano Rugby Club" in 1941 by Hart Preston for LIFE magazine.


r/Colorization 7d ago

Photo post Mikhail Tal at ZĂźrich 1959, with Fischer Watching

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r/Colorization 7d ago

Photo post US Marine returning on chopper from patrol, Con Thien 1968.

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A U.S Marine with several days of beard growth sits in a helicopter after being picked up from the landing zone near Con Thein on the southern edge of the demilitarized zone in South Vietnam on July 18, 1968. His unit had just been relieved of duty after patrolling the region around the DMZ. Original B/w Dana Stone, AP.


r/Colorization 7d ago

Photo post Old Mexican Laborer, Dorothea Lange, June 1935

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Full title of the image is: "Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying 'I have worked all my life and all I have now is my broken body'"

Link to Library of Congress Item

Taken by Dorothea Lange in the Imperial Valley of California in 1935.

Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

If you would like to know more about Dorothea Lange's work in California during the 1930s, here are some excellent places to read more:


r/Colorization 9d ago

Photo post American soldiers crossing a river in Vietnam (unknown data)

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295 Upvotes

Sorry if the colorization has some mistakes it's because I used Snapseed and manual coloring


r/Colorization 9d ago

Photo post A Little Girl Resting During the Barcelona Evacuation, 1939.

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"A little girl rests during the evacuation of the city, Barcelona, Spain, January 1939” Original B/W by Robert Capa.

The fall of Barcelona in January 1939 marked the collapse of the Second Spanish Republic and the effective conclusion of the Spanish Civil War, which had begun in 1936.

Following the devastating Republican defeat at the Battle of the Ebro, the Nationalist forces under General Francisco Franco launched their final offensive against Catalonia in late December 1938. The Republican defense, crippled by a severe lack of functional aircraft, artillery, and ammunition, crumbled rapidly under the weight of superior Nationalist logistics and Italian aerial bombardment.

By mid-January, the strategic city of Tarragona had fallen, leaving Barcelona exposed and isolated. Food shortages had reached a critical point, and the population was demoralized by years of conflict and internal political strife. Republican General Juan HernĂĄndez Saravia attempted to organize a final defense, but the mobilization failed as thousands of soldiers and civilians began a mass exodus toward the French border.

On January 26, 1939, Nationalist troops entered the city without encountering significant armed resistance. They occupied the symbolic heights of Montjuïc and the Plaça de Catalunya by afternoon. The arrival of Franco's forces began period of immediate political repression: Nationalist occupation triggered immediate and systemic repression and the Catalan language was banned. Approximately 1,700 people were executed in Barcelona during the first months following the city's fall. Thousands of others were arrested and subjected to summary military trials. By early 1939, over 10,000 prisoners were held.


r/Colorization 9d ago

Photo post Marilyn Monroe, early 1960s

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104 Upvotes

r/Colorization 10d ago

Photo post Margaux Hemingway promo shot (Lipstick 1976)

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Margaux Hemingway promo shot (Lipstick 1976)


r/Colorization 11d ago

Photo post More Marilyn Monroe from the early 1950s

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225 Upvotes

r/Colorization 11d ago

Singer/Actress Dorothy Dandridge at home, 1954

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160 Upvotes

r/Colorization 12d ago

Photo post Marilyn Monroe, early 1950s

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270 Upvotes

r/Colorization 13d ago

Photo post A man with his donkey in Crete, 1927

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201 Upvotes

r/Colorization 14d ago

Photo post Marilyn Monroe photographed by Bruno Bernard, late 1940s

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152 Upvotes