Historical black-and-white photos restored in colour

Thanks to modern advancements, these historical black-and-white photos have been digitally coloured. Thank goes to software program, Photoshop, and members of a group called “Colourized History” for the restoration. These photos, previously only seen in black and white, bring history to life in an amazing new way. So let’s relive these past historic events – the good and the bad – through some colourful lenses.

1. The Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937

2.Louis Armstrong practicing in his dressing room, circa 1946

3. Abandoned boy clutching a stuffed toy after the London bombings of 1945.

4. Big Jay McNeely driving the crowd at the Olympic auditorium into a frenzy, Los Angeles, 1953

5. W.H. Murphy and his associate demonstrating their bulletproof vest on October 13, 1923

6. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of Titanic’s sinking the night before. (April 16, 1912)

7. Helen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin in 1919

8. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge ca 1935

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9. Times Square, 1947

10. Bikini Atoll Hydrogen Bomb Test, 1954

Image credits: Reddit

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