These photos, in color, portray profound moments from history. Each photo
reveals a snapshot of a time gone by. Some of the photos show instants that
shook the world. Other photos reveal ordinary moments that open a window
for us to peek through into the past. Seeing these old photos in color for
the first time makes it easier for us to imagine ourselves there.
It Literally Changes Our Perspective Of History. Enjoy! :)
Look closer, the sign reads: WEAR A MASK OR GO TO JAIL. The Spanish flu,
California 1918.
American troops on board a landing craft heading for the beaches at Oran in
Algeria during Operation 'Torch,' November 1942.
Beauty queen and actress Marilyn Monroe.
Mark Twain was actually a redhead, taken in 1870.
German prisoners of war in an American camp, photographed as they're forced to watch a film about the German concentration
camps, 1945.
Ernest Hemingway and his son Gregory, Sun Valley, Idaho.
October, 1941.
Two Flappers and Their Dates. Chicago, 1928.
A Women Air Force Service Pilot during World War 2.
Oldest photo of a tornado, 1884.
Berlin 1961, Escape to the West.
Night fishing in Hawaii, 1948.
Five year old Albert Einstein, 1884.
Film legend Robert Redford, 1973.
Ford Model T - U.S. Postal Service Truck, 1925.
16 year old German soldier crying after being captured by the Allies, 1945.
John F. Kennedy, winner of the Democratic Nomination for Congress in the
11th Massachusetts District, relaxes with his dog on June 22, 1946.
The raucous October Revolution led by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.
Tailoring students at a trade school, Sweden, 1955.
Albert Woolson, last surviving Civil War veteran ever, enlisting at 14
and dying at 106 in 1956.
A Sicilian farmer showing to an American soldier where the Germans
retreated, August 1943.
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A young woman embraces a US soldier at a train station in New Hope,
Connecticut, 1945.
Ambrotype of A British veteran of the Peninsular War and his wife, 1860s.
An old French couple greeting soldiers of the 308th and 166th Infantries
upon their arrival during the American advance, November 6, 1918.
British Columbian forest, 1950.
Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cliff during the filming of "The Good,
The Bad and The Ugly".
Faroese fishermen onboard a steamer on their way home from Icelandic fishing, 1898.
Italian immigrants at Ellis Island, 1905.
Shepherd of Judea, 1898.
Sleeping Marine, Union Station, 1948 Photo by Esther Bubley.
Standing guard at Windsor Castle in the 1960s.
Students learning to swim without water, England in 1920.
U.S. Soldier resting on his final day in the hospital; tomorrow he returns to the front. France, 1918.
U.S. soldier bidding his family farewell to fight in WWI, 1917.
Saturday bath time in rural Spencer, Tennessee, 1939.
1986: The Shuttle Challenger up close. Notice the brown smoke at the
bottom right, indicating a leak, which lead to its fatal explosion.
1982: 86-year-old World War I veteran Joseph Ambrose attends a
parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. In his hands, he holds
the flag that covered his son's casket, who was killed fighting in
Korea.
1970: A rare glimpse of Venus, images from the Soviet probe.
1963: In Florida, less than a week before his assassination, John F.
Kennedy watches the firing of a missile by a submerged nuclear submarine.
1994: The funeral of Richard Nixon, attended by five US presidents.
The Final Photo. On August 22nd 1969, The Beatles got together at John Lennon's
estate in Tittenhurst Park for their final photo session. Nobody knew at the
time that this would be the last one.
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