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How often do you picture history in your mind's eye, and see it in black and white? Up until the early 1970s, color photography was extremely rare.
Thanks to modern technology and photo editors with a passion for the past, colorizing old black and whites has recently become popular. Here are some of our favorite pieces of colorized history.
Check out famous moments and celebrities as you've never seen them before. These photos will change the way you feel about history…and they just may make you yearn for a time machine!
Please SHARE with your friends so they can see the past in living color, too!
Audrey Hepburn was beautiful no matter what...
But in color, her beauty is tangible. She feels real.
When Kissing the War Goodbye gets the color treatment, the classic photograph explodes into our hearts and minds as it never has before.
Frank Worth's legendary photograph of the gorgeous Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the film "Giant" is sexy either way...but it feels like you're hanging out with Liz when you view it in color.
Brief moments in time are put into perspective when we see the normal black and white images in color. This photo perfectly depicts racial tensions in the early 1960s, but the colorized version humanizes everyone involved. Especially the woman up front.
A shot of color adds life to Anne Frank, if only for a moment.
Doesn't Einstein feel so much more human in blue beach shorts? Hah!
Lincoln gets the color treatment after the jump!!
President Lincoln, in living color.
Here's a side of Roosevelt that you've probably never seen...
Churchill...those baby blue eyes!
The Hindenberg was a disaster we've all read about in our history books. We've all heard about it before, but it almost seems like an old wives tale to those of us who weren't alive when it happened.
The tragedy is tangible when viewed in color.
Here's a side of Alfred Hitchcock that you've never seen before!
Movie stars (already beautiful) also benefit from the color treatment. Check out Marilyn Monroe:
And a young, handsome Clint Eastwood! This photo, usually printed in B&W, dates back to 1960!
Big Jay McNeely drove the crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953! Jazz in black and white...
Is nothing compared to Jazz brought to life by a perfectly colorized photo!
Lou Gherig the day he announced his retirement with his famous "Luckiest Man" speech. He died of ALS just two years later.
This incredible colorized photo puts all of those ALS Ice Bucket challenge videos into perspective...does it not?
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