17 Brilliantly Colorized Photos From History

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A German soldier with a saw tooth bayonet stands in a dugout wearing his brow plate slid down to his neck, World War I

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Eunice Hancock, a 21-year-old woman, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft plant during World War II. August 1942

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A US soldier stands amid crates and stacks of loot stored by Nazi Germany in Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Bavaria, 1945

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Unpacking Mona Lisa at the end of World War II in 1945

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Charlie Chaplin attends the premiere of his newest film City Lights in Los Angeles, accompanied by Albert Einstein. February 2, 1931

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Bodybuilder Gene Jantzen with wife Pat, and eleven-month-old son Kent, 1947

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US Marine running through Japanese fire on Okinawa, Japan, 7 Jun 1945

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Two riflemen from the 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division, take a moment to roll their own cigarettes in Goesdorf after 27 days of fighting – January 10, 1945

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Fidel Castro at the Lincoln Memorial – 1959

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s address on the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. October 28, 1936

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Richard Pierce – 14 years of age, works as a Western Union Telegraph Messenger. with nine months of service. He works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes. Visits houses of prostitution. Wilmington, Delaware, ca. May 1910

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Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House – 1970

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The day Al Capone arrived at Alcatraz – January 7, 1939

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“The Untouchable” Eliot Ness – ca 1935

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Ralph Neppel wearing his newly awarded Medal of Honor around his neck, gets kissed in the White House by his fiancee, Jean Moore. – September 10, 1945

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Hollywood songwriter Harry Carroll with chorus girls at his beach house in Santa Monica, California, 1929

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US Civil War – Officers of the 69th New York Volunteer Regiment pose with a cannon at Fort Corcoran in 1861