24 Photographs From History Brought To Life With Color

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What's cooler than seeing a bunch of unique historical photos? Seeing them in color!

While it's not possible to see every historical photograph in color, most were taken in black and white after all, plenty of flicks in this gallery have been given the color treatment to help you really imagine what life must have been like back then. Here are 25 cool historical photos with some facts, some fun, and some color.

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Logs used as ruses to imitate cannons, or "Quaker guns," in former Confederate fortifications at Manassas Junction, March 1862.

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Detroit, 1910.

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Young Fidel Castro, colorized, 1946.

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The aftermath of the Wall Street bombing on September 16th, 1920. A horse-drawn cart exploded in front of J.P. Morgan at the corner of Wall and Broad streets. 40 people and one horse were killed.

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A Japanese Red Army member with a gun and two hostages in Kuala Lumpur, August 7, 1975.

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A Gloster Gladiator takes off over a Triumph Gloria, colorized, during the second world war.

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Japanese store selling tobacco and tobacco accessories, 1877.

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Exchange of fire after the crossing of the kali. A Dutch marine charges forward with a Browning M1918 automatic rifle, Indonesia, 1946.

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The autogyro of Juan de la Cierva before the crossing of the English Channel from London to Paris. On 18 September 1928, it became the first rotating wing aircraft to cross the Channel.

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Northern Ireland, 1971.

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A marine recruit from the Woman Recruit Training Command during basic training at the USMC Recruit Depot in Parris Island, 27 July 1985.

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Bellevue Hospital in New York, around 1896.

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Flight Sergeant Georges Nadon of No. 122 Squadron, in his Spitfire at Hornchurch, colorized, May 1942.

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Flight Lieutenant HR Wigley, with a bunch of bananas. Norfolk Island, September 1943.

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Saladin Citadel, Cairo 1870.

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Battle between striking teamsters armed with pipes and the police in the streets of Minneapolis, June 1934.

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A German soldier caught by the French Resistance is led through the streets, St Mihiel, France, Sept 1944.

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Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, 1953.

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Workers assemble M3 Lee medium tanks in an American factory, 1942.

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"Gas Attack on the Somme" during the Battle of the Somme. 1916.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II, colorized, 1910.

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Small Japanese submarines and other equipment abandoned on Kiska Island, after the American takeover in 1943.

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Lance Corporal R. Hearn from 1 Royal Norfolk, 1945.