10 unbelievable colourised photos from history

Colourised photographs bring the past to life. They take heaps of imagination and patience to create, but the results are truly worthwhile. Here we shortlist ten of the most amazing images we’ve featured in All About History so far…

 

1. These workers enjoying a break at a country store in North Carolina, 1939.

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Credit: Jordan Lloyd, Dynamichrome

 

2. These WWI soldiers advancing from their listening trench.

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Credit: Jordan Lloyd, Dynamichrome

 

3. These Boston firemen posing with a new fire engine during the 1920s. 

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Credit: Alamy, David Lewis

 

4. Londoners lining up to buy fruit from a grocer’s cart during the Blitz.

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Credit: David Lewis

 

5. These men tempting fate by testing a bulletproof vest, 1920.

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Credit: Jordan Lloyd, Dynamichrome

 

6. This stunning photo of the Titanic docked at Southampton in 1912.

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Credit: Jordan Lloyd, Dynamichrome

 

7. Abraham Lincoln posing for a photo after the Battle of Antietam, 1862.

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Credit: Jordan Lloyd, Dynamichrome

 

8. Comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, 1934.

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Credit: Jordan Lloyd, Dynamichrome

 

9. These British soldiers walking arm-in-arm with a wounded German, 1916.

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Credit: Jordan Lloyd, Dynamichrome

 

10. This amazing image of the Civil Rights March on Washington, 1963.

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Credit: Jordan Lloyd, Dynamichrome

 

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