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This Man Colorizes Old Photos And They Might Change The Way You See History

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With the many editing tools available today, we can turn any old picture from black and white into multi-color. Especially when it comes to classic images of the past, many historically important figures have been captured through a vintage lens serving almost as a time capsule of a distant era.

Mads Madsen is a 25-year-old Danish man who is fascinated by history and has a Master’s degree in ancient Greece and Rome history, has colorized some well-known personalities from history. The man just finds his comfort in history and his inspiration came when he saw some colorized photos on Reddit. “They were colorized by hand. This discovery led me to a more in-depth search, and I learned that it was actually done by an old lady,” said the man. “She had a website dedicated to hand-coloring photographs of all periods with oil. It just absolutely blew me away.”

#1 Desmond Doss

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Desmond Doss, Conscientious Objector, And Medal Of Honor Recipient. He Was Given The Medal Of Honor For His Actions At Hacksaw Ridge, During The Battle Of Okinawa, Where He Carried 75 Wounded Men To Safety Under Heavy Enemy Fire

#2 Amelia Earhart, Unknown Date

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These edits on pictures breathe a new life, not just in photographed but also on historic unforgettable memories. Mads says that colorizing an old photo is no easy job and is more difficult when it comes to editing something like tree branches stretching into the sky. Since he doesn’t want the sky to look brown or the branches to look blue, he has to do everything by hand and more carefully.

#3 Two American Soldiers Proudly Show Off Their Personalized “Easter Eggs” (155mm Artillery Shells) Before Firing Them

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#4 Frederick Douglass, Talented Orator And Frontspokesman Of Abolition. Escaped Slavery, And Led A Freedom-Movement

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The man said “I’ve always had a fascination with beautiful eyes, and that’s how I pick most of my photographs,” said the man. “If you look through my gallery, you’ll see that most of the eyes there are steely-blue or sky-blue, and they (hopefully) are framed beautifully by the surrounding color, contrasting with it really nicely. So that’s the main criteria.”

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#5 Nikola Tesla

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Nikola Tesla, With Roger Boskovich’s Book ‘Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis’, In Front Of The Spiral Coil Of His High-Frequency Transformer At East Houston St., New York. He is well-known and respected for his contributions to modern electricity and technology.

#6 Sir David Attenborough, Born This Day In 1926, Seen Here Petting A Macaw Around 1950-51

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#7 Helen Keller Greeting Charlie Chaplin By Feeling His Features

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#8 Alan Turing

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Is A Computer Scientist, Philosopher, And Cryptologist Who Played A Crucial Role In Breaking The Nazis’ Enigma Code – Seen Here In Happier Times. Unknown Date.

#9 Native American Chief With Feathers, Unknown Date

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#10 Two Girls And Their Snow Fort, Ca. 1910

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#11 Albert Einstein, Photographed Ca. 1948 By Yousuf Karsh

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Einstein was a theoretical physicist who shared the theory of relativity influencing the world of science and philosophy.

#12 Christmas Truce On 1914 During The First World War

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British and German soldiers laid down their arms and climbed out into no man’s land for an unofficial ceasefire during Christmas. And it has been exchanged the gifts and candy, British soldiers cut the hair of German soldiers and officers swapped buttons and coats – on the next day, the fighting resumed.

#13 Audrey Hepburn. Unknown Date

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Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian who was best known for her roles in films such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

#14 Ca. 1960 – A Civil Rights Demonstration. A Black Woman Is Glaring At A Man, Who Appears To Be A Segregationist, Donning The Confederate Flag On His Hardhat

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#15 Sgt. Henry ‘Black Death’ Johnson Of The 369th

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#16 Brigadier General And Actor Jimmy Stewart. Participated In Over 20 Missions Over Nazi-occupied Europe, And Even Flew A Bombing Run During The Vietnam War.

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#17 Jim Henson, Creator Of The Muppets, Sitting With Ernie & Kermit The Frog.

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#18 Marilyn Monroe After A Party.

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Marilyn Monroe the most popular American actress and well-known for her iconic “blonde bombshell” roles.

#19 Richard Pierce – 14 Years Of Age, Works As A Western Union Telegraph Messenger. With Nine Months Of Service. He Works From 7 A.m. To 6 P.m. Smokes. Visits Houses Of Prostitution. Wilmington, Delaware, Ca. May 1910

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#20 Albert Einstein Laughing During A Dinner Party, Year Unknown

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#21 Paul Newman & Clint Eastwood

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#22 Victor Hugo, Famous Author Of Les Miserables, And The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame – Ca. 1876

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#23 James Dean, Actor And Rebel Without A Cause, December 29th, 1954

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#24 Joseph Goebbels Scowling At Photographer Albert Eisenstaedt After Finding Out Eisenstaedt Was Jewish.

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Eisenstaedt himself is quoted as saying ‘He stared at me with hate in his eyes’, despite the events following up to this. Eisenstaedt had photographed Goebbels sitting on his own outside in the courtyard, had approached him and taken a photograph of him, and really was sad, when Goebbels had learned of Eisenstaedt’s ‘true identity’.

#25 Abraham Lincoln And George Mcclellan At Antietam, October 2nd/3rd, 1862

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Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Lincoln played a major role in leading the country through moral and constitutional crises in the American Civil War.

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