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Realistically colorized historical photos make the pastseem incredibly real [36 pictures]NOVEMBER 6, 2013 | BY ABRAHAM | 319 COMMENTS

Over the last couple years, an increasingly popular trend online has been to create and share colorized photosfrom history. Artists such as Jordan Lloyd, Dana Keller and Sanna Dullaway take intriguing old black-and-whitephotos and bring them to life with color as if theyʼd been taken only yesterday.

Here are some examples…

Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife, circa 1939

Testing the Hydrogen Bomb

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John on U.S. congressman threatens to kill reporter,maintains thatʼs an appropriate response to beingannoyed

Nothing biased or sarcastic about your reporting or mycomment, of course. Both the journalist andcongressman were out ...

Charlie Countryman Telecharger on Bear startlesbabysitter and kid by breaking into enclosed porch andtaking a nap [pics & video]

Excellent way of telling, and pleasant piece of writing totake data about my presentation focus, which i am goingto de...

Mama C on When snowfall hits Birmingham the resultsare disastrous [14 pictures]

Funny. I'd noticed that here in the north as well. Exceptours are always blue. ;)

Tristan on When snowfall hits Birmingham the resultsare disastrous [14 pictures]

This is a joke right? In Edmonton, AB, Canada where Ilive, the roads get packed with snow and ice and it's onlyafter a...

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London, 1945

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Hindenburg Disaster, 1937

Japanese Archers, circa 1860

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View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864

Audrey Hepburn

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Albert Einstein in Long Island, 1939

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Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933

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Baltimore Slums, 1938

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British Troops Board Their Train for the Front, 1939

Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, 1880

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Walt Whitman, 1887

Mark Twain, circa 1900

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Charlie Chaplin, 1916

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Elizabeth Taylor, 1956

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Country store, 1939

Washington D. C., 1921

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Charles Darwin, 1874

Abraham Lincoln, 1865

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Theodore Roosevelt

Louisville, Kentucky, 1937

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Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953

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Thich Quang Ducʼs self-immolation, 1963

Anne Frank, 1942

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Nicola Tesla

Kissing the War Goodbye, 1945

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