54 Fabulous Colorized Photos From the Last Century

[FourScore]

Brigadier General and Actor Jimmy Stewart

Stewart flew 20 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, and even flew one mission during Vietnam.



Pablo Picasso




Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939

Photo taken right after his famous retirement speech. He would pass away just two years later from ALS.



Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918




Madison Square Park New York City around 1900




Samurai Training, 1860




American Poet Walt Whitman, 1868




Audrey Hepburn




Union Soldiers taking a break 1863




MANY MORE AT: http://www.inspire52.com/colored-old-photos/

[Shrike47]

1. Thank you! I especially enjoyed Walt Whitman (the photo; the poetry, meh)

[BKH70041]

2. Pretty Neat!

Checking it out right now.

Edit: OK, Jayne Mansfield was really sexy.

[lob1]

33. I lieve Mariska Hargitay of Law and Order SVU is Jayne's daughter.

[niyad]

35. she is.

[unblock]

3. these are wonderful, especially the ones i recognize as black and whites!

[NV Whino]

4. No, no, no, no

They have to be shades of grey.

[FourScore]

5. :-)

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. those look to be really well done...

love the Hepburn... what a beautiful and talented lady.

sP

[mylye2222]

7. Thanks for ur OP;

enjoyed the Helen Keller/ Charlot one!

[deutsey]

8. The one of Goebbels scowling at a Jewish photographer

is really creepy.

[Hekate]

42. Yes, that is the Stare of Death if I've ever seen one.

[xfundy]

9. Nicely done.

So often projects of this sort inject far too much color.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. That photo of Walt Whitman was taken by my 4th great-uncle

(Mathew Brady; his wife was my g-g-g-grandfather's sister).

[FourScore]

15. Cool! Does the family still have any of his work? n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. Most of it ended up with my g-g-g-uncle...

(my great-great-great-grandfather's son), who apprenticed to Brady at age 12 and ended up taking over his studio in DC; it's been a bit scattered, since, as far as I know (most of the negatives ended up being sold to the National Archives in the 50's, some of it is at the Yale University Library, etc).

[Kingofalldems]

11. Looks like they got the Babe Ruth pic way wrong.

First of all he looks much older than 25 (as he would have been in 1920).
Second his MLB debut was in 1914.

Otherwise this is a great collection.

BTW, Sophia Loren was not amused by the antics of Jayne Mansfield.

[MADem]

55. That poor guy always looked like an old man...

You could best tell his age not by the lines on his face, but by the wrinkles/sag in his NECK. He also gained and lost weight like crazy--he'd be thin in some pics, and fat in others (all those hot dogs, maybe?).

In 1912 at St. Mary's Industrial School, he looked old~! Back row, middle, w/wrinkles!




Here he is (first three pics, the last is a pic from 1918 that was used to forge a souvenir) as a fresh-faced lad in 1914...he looked pretty grizzled even back then!


http://haulsofshame.com/blog/?p=16105

Here he is, still with the Red Sox, no pin stripes:



Here's another pic of him in 1920--he looked old, even as a young man:


http://www.legendaryauctions.com/1920_baseball_magazine_with_babe_ruth_covers__2_is-lot123049.aspx

Here he is in 1929--he's looking a bit more creased:

http://rmyauctions.com/1929_babe_ruth__largest_close_up_portrait_photo_kn-lot4591.aspx

[FourScore]

61. Must've been those steroids...oh, wait...They didn't have any!

The players were actually as good as they played back then. Imagine that!

[MADem]

64. It was the ten hotdogs per game! nt

[KG]

12. IS Jimmy Stewart throwing gang signs?

[jmondine]

20. Sure. "Our Gang" signs.

[MADem]

53. That was my first thought! nt

[FourScore]

62. It's so timeless. He could be a young man today! n/t

[WI_DEM]

13. I like the Madison Square Park from 1900 photo

[Lochloosa]

14. This one is just not fair....

I would like to see that in 50 Shades of Grey....

[MohRokTah]

38. AUDREY HEPBURN!!!!!

[Lochloosa]

39. I know.

[MohRokTah]

41. I've had a major crush on her since I was nine.

[Warren DeMontague]

57. You and like all of us.

Damn.

[Populist_Prole]

16. Interesting! I thought the whole world was in B&W till the mid 60's

Seriously though, I actually kinda believed that till I was in my late teens.

[lobodons]

21. And walked quickly and jerky

And of course everyone also walked quickly and jerky as well.

[Populist_Prole]

23. And ragtime piano music permeated the atmosphere

[TNNurse]

17. I know that many people hate this.

I am not one of them. I do think the Union soldiers blue are awfully vivid, but I was not there, I could be wrong.

[DrDan]

18. beautiful pictures

[hunter]

19. Anyone know what this ramped machine is at the filling station?

Was it a way of starting cars without turning the crank?

That would be handy. A car started with a hand crank could break your arm if it misfired.

Filling a car with gasoline while the engine was running was also dangerous.

Of course simply driving a car in those days was dangerous. It's a little less dangerous now, but still one of the greater dangers most people commonly accept.

[FSogol]

24. It is an early hydraulic lift. n/t

[Xithras]

28. Yep, you can see the Havoline logo on it.

In the early days, oil companies would provide stations with primitive lifts to make oil changes easier (the alternative was usually crawling around in the dirt with a wooden bucket). The thinking was that customers would prefer stations that could change oil faster, which would result in more oil sales in those stations. Since you had to change your oil every few hundred miles in those days, it was worthwhile for the oil companies to offer the equipment to small stations that couldn't afford it themselves.

[napkinz]

25. wow ... but I have one question

Why can't they do as good a job when they colorize movies?

[eggplant]

27. Because there are a ton more frames in movies, and most of them are blurry. n/t

[lovemydog]

49. Very expensive. You have to colorize every frame.

Though if they did it now it would indeed look better than the TNT colorized versions that were done in the early days of film colorization.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Mark Twain

Was - to borrow a word from my 20's - sooooooooo money!

[sdfernando]

29. These are quite beautiful...

...but they identified the Hindenburg as a Blimp not a rigid airship

[lovemydog]

47. It shows how much folks would sacrifice to get a Led Zeppelin album cover.

[sdfernando]

67. Ahhh...but a Zeppelin

could be a rigid airship or a blimp...it just needs to be manufactured by the Zeppelin company.

BTW: the Goodyear Blimp was manufactured by a descendent of the Zeppelin company...so technically it is a Zeppelin too.

[lovemydog]

69. I did not know that.

Thanks for the info sdfernando. Funny story about the band name. When Jimmy Page told Keith Moon about the new band he was forming (heavy metal blues), Moon replied that it would go over like a lead balloon. So Page named the band Led Zeppelin and put that photo on their first album cover.

Have a wonderful day.

[Puddy]

30. Very cool.... thanks for posting.

[FourScore]

63. You're welcome and welcome to DU Puddy!

[Blue_In_AK]

31. Clint Eastwood was kinda hot in the early 1960s.

[Arugula Latte]

44. That was before he started conversing with furniture.

Oh, and Jimmy Stewart -- surprisingly hot as well!

[Blue_In_AK]

50. Indeed.

I'm still scratching my head over that chair thing. It was almost like he was trying to sabotage Mitt's campaign.

[Bosonic]

32. Olde time boxing was kinda rough

You've both lost three pints of blood ... it's a draw

[lovemydog]

48. Since it's a draw - 15 more rounds!

[MadrasT]

34. These are so fascinating.

Love

[niyad]

36. in the pic of oswald, he reminds me a bit of keving costner. and the dress crawford is wearing

in her pic is lovely.

[MohRokTah]

37. I used to watch B&W movies all the time as a kid in the 60s and 70s

I fell in love with Audrey Hepburn the first time I ever saw her.

I think I was nine.

[smirkymonkey]

40. Thank You! I love old photographs!

I love B&W photos, but I also find the colorization fascinating as well. They really come alive.

[lovemydog]

43. Thanks! Amazing.

Kind of disorienting as I'm so used to thinking of those times in black & white.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

45. That's George Armstrong Custer in the foreground with the dog in pic #9

the guy who got himself killed at the Little Bighorn. In the photo he was just a lieutenant at the time, early in his military career, just out of West Point.

[Calista241]

70. Nice catch!

[Uncle Joe]

46. There was a beautiful sky in Nashville juxtaposed as it was during the Civil War.

View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864

These are all great historical pics.


Thanks for the thread, FourScore.

[kentuck]

51. kick!

Wonderful photos!

[TeeYiYi]

52. Gotta love this one...

Girls delivering ice, 1918


TYY

[MADem]

54. From the last century....and the one before that, as well. Very cool! nt

[JI7]

56. from the last 2 centuries, the ones from the 1800s are especially something to see

[Warren DeMontague]

59. Self-delete. It's already been noted.

[madokie]

60. thanks

I really enjoy these old photos OP's

[Tom_Foolery]

65. Wow! There's a fortune in the picture of the North Carolina store...

All of those signs would bring some good money now. The visible gas pump is worth a lot, too.

[TeeYiYi]

66. This thread isn't complete without...

...Marilyn


TYY

[jen63]

68. Great photos

Albert Einstein has the gentlest eyes and Jimmy Stewart, oooo la la!

[joeybee12]

71. These are great...knr