Amazing images from the past that have been colored and restored

War Paint, (1944)

A Samurai, (1881)

Troops crouch inside a LCVP landing craft, just before landing on “Omaha” Beach on “D-Day”, (6 June 1944)

Soccer legend Pele. Sao Paulo, (1958)

Miss America, 1924 – Ruth Malcomson

Daredevil, (1917)

British tattoo artist George Burchett, the King of Tattooists, (ca 1930)

Manhattan at sunset from the George Washington Bridge, (December 1936)

Curb Market in NYC, (ca 1900)

Marilyn Monroe’s USO performance, (February 1954)

Observer on Iwo Jima, (1945)

Jewish women and children arriving at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, Poland, (1944)

Two girls, Jean and Charlotte Potter, sit at the beach with their dog, (ca. 1910-1915)

Daredevil, (1917)

World War II propaganda posters in Port Washington, New York, (1942)

Unemployed men outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, (1931)

A German soldier after being captured by American troops near Nicosia, (1943)

peration Overlord, (June 1944)

Three soldiers looking for the enemy from the shelter of a rubble-filled shed somewhere in France during World War I, (1917)

College students pile into a Volkswagen Beetle, (c. 1965)

“Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant killed in air combat” – Western Desert, Egypt, (1941)

An Ojibwe Native American spearfishing, Minnesota, (1908)

A small child with a puppy – Point Pleasant,West Virginia, (May 1943)

Harlem News Boy, (1943)

Titanic sinks on April 15, 1912. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of the disaster. (April 16 1912)

Cab stand in Madison Square Park, New York, (ca 1900)

Licking blocks of ice during the heat wave, NYC, (1912)