21 Colorized Photos From the Vaults of History

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A victim of American bombing, ethnic Cambodian guerrilla Danh Son Huol is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp on the Ca Mau Peninsula, September 15, 1970.

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The Jersey Shore circa 1905. On the beach, Asbury Park

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American troops on board a landing craft heading for the beaches at Oran in Algeria during Operation ‘Torch’, November 1942

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Country store on dirt road, North Carolina in 1939

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Times Square, D-Day, 1944

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Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939. Photo taken right after his famous retirement speech. He would pass away just two years later from ALS.

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Union soldiers posing with a cannon, ca 1862

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Senegalese WW1 soldier who lost both his arms writes a letter with his new prosthetic limbs. At Vocational Rehabilitation School for Amputees, 28 Avenue de New-York, Paris – 1918

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Tuskegee airmen at Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945

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The American Nazis – Nearly 1,000 uniformed men, wearing swastika arm bands and carrying Nazi banners, parade past a reviewing stand in New Jersey on July 18, 1937

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Young Brigitte Bardot visits Pablo Picasso at his studio near Cannes, 1956

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5-year old Harold Walker, picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Oklahoma, 1916.

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Solvay Conference 1927

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Australian nurses ready to battle the influenza pandemic in Surrey Hills, Sydney in April 1919

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Flu ward at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918

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Banana Docks, New York City around 1900

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The speech where Adolf Hitler declared war on the USA in 1941

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Ethnomusicologist playing a cylinder recording for Mountain Chief, 1916

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A young woman embracing and kissing a uniformed US serviceman (USAAF) at New Hope train station, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. – 1945

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Casino and boardwalk, Asbury Park, N.J, 1900s.

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“King of Reptiles — Rattlesnake Joe” at Westchester County Fair, New York, ca 1910