21 Historic Black-and-White Photos Brought to Life With Color

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American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. 1958. Photo by Philippe Halsman.

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Woman in white bathing suit on beach wearing big straw hat. August, 1938. Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts.

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Antietam, Maryland. Lt. Col. Charles B. Norton at headquarters of Gen. Fitz-John Porter. Sept. 1862. Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1870, photographer.

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The Bedouin Mother. Photo by Ilo Battigeli, 1948.

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Karl Marx in 1867. Photographed by Friedrich Karl Wunder.

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Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth with Japanese-American Baseball Players, Fresno, CA 1927

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Private Ramond L. Roth, from Mogadore, Ohio. - “ I was scared to death,” near Ramscheid, Germany. March 4th, 1945.

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Redding, California. Gasoline filling station, June 1942.

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Titanic survivors Charlotte and Marjorie Collyer, 1912.

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Amelia Earhart photographed by her plane in 1932.

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955), at home in Princeton, N.J., 1944.

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Norwich, Connecticut. 1938 -1945.

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A Japanese man rides his bike carrying soba noodles on his shoulder in Tokyo, 1935.

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov among relatives and friends in the courtyard of his house on Sadovo-Kudrinskaya street. Spring 1890.

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Fridtjof Nansen, 1886.

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Maria Callas photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1957.

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George Armstrong Custer, in West Point Cadet Uniform, 1859.

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A very dapper secretary of the Embassy of Japan. Taketomi Toshihiko, seated with his wife. Washington D.C. October 24, 1922.

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Imperial Russia. Smolny Institute for Education of Noble Maidens, ca. 1913. Photo by Karl Bulla.

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Major General William T. Sherman. 1865.