Black and white photos often make events and moments in recent history feel older than they really are. As a result, we usually don’t relate to them as we do with a photo that is in color. So what happens when you take old black and white photographs, and colorize them? Take a look at these photographs and see if you feel any different about them…

1. Abandoned Boy Holding a Stuffed Toy Animal. London 1945



Image credits: Toni Frissel



Colorozed by: HansLucifer

2. Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, NY



Image credits: canasanta.com



Colorozed by: Edvos

3. Young Boy in Baltimore Slum Area, July 1938



Image credits: John Vachon



Colorozed by: photojacker

4. Elizabeth Taylor – Giant (1956 film)



Image credits: Frank Worth



Colorozed by: malakon

5. Hindenburg Disaster – May 6, 1937



Image credits: Murray Becker



Colorozed by: Dana Keller

6. Japanese Archers, circa 1860



Image credits: badasshistoricalpictures.com



Colorozed by: photojacker

7. View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864



Image credits: nashville.about.com



Colorozed by: Sanna Dullaway

8. Unemployed Lumber Worker, circa 1939



Image credits: alafoto.com



Colorozed by: zuzahin

9. Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921



Image credits: hqdesktop.net



Colorozed by: Sanna Dullaway

10. Big Jay McNeely Driving the Crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a Frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953



Image credits: Bob Willoughby



Colorozed by: traquea

11. W.H. Murphy and his Associate Demonstrating their Bulletproof Vest on October 13, 1923



Image credits: National Photo Company



Colorozed by: zuzahin

12. Audrey Hepburn



Image credits: wallpaperswa.com



Colorozed by: Danna Keller

13. ‘Old Gold’, Country Store, 1939



Image credits: Dorothea Lange



Colorozed by: photojacker

14. Joseph Goebbels Scowling at Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after Finding out he’s Jewish, 1933



Image credits: life.time.com



Colorozed by: photojacker

15. Nikola Tesla, 1893



Image credits: Napoleon Sarony



Colorozed by: Danna Keller

16. British Troops Cheerfully Board their Train for the First Stage of their Trip to the Western Front – England, September 20, 1939



Image credits: photosofwar.net



Colorozed by: BenAfleckIsAnOkActor

17. Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880



Image credits: realeza.foros.ws



Colorozed by: Sanna Dullaway

18. Walt Whitman, 1887



Image credits: studiotv.com.au



Colorozed by: Danna Keller

19. Mark Twain in the Garden, circa 1900



Image credits: imgur.com



Colorozed by: zuzahin

20. Charlie Chaplin at the Age of 27, 1916



Image credits: wikipedia.org



Colorozed by: BenAfleckIsAnOkActor

21. Women Delivering Ice, 1918



Original photo by War Department/National Archives



Colourized by Dana Keller

22. Times Square, 1947



Original photo by William Gottlieb



Colourized by Jordan J. Lloyd

23. Portrait Used to Design the Penny. President Lincoln Meets General McClellan – Antietam, Maryland ca September 1862



Original photo Alexander Gardner



Colourized by Zuzzah

24. Marilyn Monroe, 1957



Original photo by Richard Avedon



Colourized by Zuzzah

25. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of Titanic’s sinking the night before. (April 16, 1912)



Original photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection



Colourized by Dana Keller

26. Easter Eggs for Hitler, c 1944-1945



Original photo by US Army/National Archives



Colourized by Zuzzah

27. Sergeant George Camblair practicing with a gas mask in a smokescreen – Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942



Original photo by Jack Delano



Colourized by Ryan Urban

28. Helen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin in 1919



Original photo by Roy Export Company / Cineteca di Bologna



Colourized photo by Zuzahin

29. Painting WWII Propaganda Posters, Port Washington, New York – 8 July 1942



Original photo by Marty Zimmerman



Colourized by Patty Allison

30. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge ca 1935



Original photo source unknown



Colourized by Dana Keller

31. Louis Armstrong practicing in his dressing room, ca 1946



Original photo by William Gottlieb



Colourized by Dana Keller

32. Broadway at the United States Hotel Saratoga Springs, N.Y. ca 1900-1915



Original photo by Detroit Publishing Co.



Colourized photo by Sanna Dullaway

33. “The Tall Cowboy”, Ralph E. Madsen with Senator Morris Sheppard, 1919



Original photo Harris & Ewing



Colourized by Photo Retrofit

34. Dancers of the National American Ballet, 20 August 1924



Original photo by National American Ballet



Colourized by Photo Retrofit

35. Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, 1921



Original photo by Ferdinand Schmutzer



Colourized by Klassixx

36. Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father and the only surviving member of the Frank family revisiting the attic they spent the war in, 3 May 1960



Original photo by Arnold Newman



Colourized by Laiz Kuczynski

37. Young Woman with Umbrella – Louisiana, 1937



Original photo by Dorothea Lange



Colourized by Manuel De Leonardo

38. Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald, April 16, 1945



Original photo by Private H. Miller



Colourized by Manuel De Leonardo

39. Peatwy Tuck of the Meskwahki, 1898



Original photo by Frank A. Rheinhart



Colourized by Photocopshop

40. Boys after buying Easter flowers in Union Square, New York, April 1908



Original photo by Bain News Service.



Colourized by Dana Keller

It’s incredible how much more we can relate to photographs once they are presented in color. These moments in the past go from being a distant memory, to one that we can relate to on a much deeper and more personal level.