20 Historical Photos Brought to Life With Color
Photography has come a long way since its invention in 1822, with no development more significant than the addition of color. But while color photography was invented in 1861, it didn't become commonplace until the 1970s, thanks to the time and costs it took to take them. Therefore, so many awesome historical photographs are relegated to showing the colorful world they came from through a back-and-white filter. That is, until now.
Thanks to A.I., digital tools, and other coloring techniques, we can see historical photos like they've never been seen before, on a scale we've never been able to produce them. We can see moments like Yankees legend Roger Maris slugging his then record-breaking 61st home run of the 1961 season, breaking Babe Ruth's long-standing mark. Green grass, brown dirt, and blue sky are absolutely pivotal to the baseball aesthetic, and it's a privilege to be able to see this moment in a way only those who were there at the ballpark have been able to see it for the past 60 years.
See that photo, along with 19 other striking historical pics of people, places, and things, brought to life with color.
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1961: New York's Roger Maris hits his then record breaking 61st Home Run. -
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Vincent Price, Carrie Fisher, Ringo Starr and John Ritter, 1978. -
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A Tiny mobile-home, built in 1926. -
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Actress, singer and dancer Mitzi Gaynor. California, 1954. -
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Passengers boarding British airship R101, 1929. -
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Shell gas station in Denmark, 1960s. -
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Donald Trump photographs Bridget Marx, 1993. -
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Landing of Alhucemas by the Spanish Army. Morocco, 1925. -
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Nikola Tesla looking out of his Colorado Springs lab in 1899. The sign reads, "Great danger, keep out." -
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John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy at their Palm Beach home in 1961. -
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1949: The first U.S. bound Beetle being loaded onto a New York bound ship in Rotterdam by Ben Pon, Sr., left, a Dutch businessman. -
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Katherine Hepburn and John Barrymore pose on the set of "A Bill of Divorcement" in 1932. -
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February, 1942. Arizona motel, Phoenix, Arizona. -
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Pan Am Stewardess, 1952. -
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Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, 1916/17. -
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January 1941. "Street in Pennsylvania” by Jack Delano. -
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Maude Collins, Ohio’s First Female Sheriff, circa 1910. -
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Tippi Hedren having her cigarette lit by a crow, 1963. -
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Bunny Yeager's self portrait, Miami Beach, 1950s. -
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Hawaiian King Kalakaua and Author Robert Stevenson, 1889.
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