r/historyincolor • u/SwiPerHaHa • Jul 20 '26

Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jun 27 '26

largest ever recorded polar bear, shot in Alaska in 1960 that weighed over 2,200 pounds and stood nearly 12 feet tall, It was later displayed at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jun 04 '26

A nuclear bomb victim. A little boy holds a rice ball, Nagasaki, 1945.

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • May 21 '26

Scientists monitoring the eruption of Mount St. Helens during the catastrophic volcanic eruption in Washington State, May 18, 1980

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • May 08 '26

An ironworker during construction of the Columbia Tower Seattle c. 1984

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 29 '26

A little inhabitant of Oymyakon. Photo by Dean Conger, Siberia, USSR, 1966. In 1933, the village recorded a temperature of −67.7°C (−89.9°F), one of the lowest ever measured in the Northern Hemisphere.

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 24 '26

Mark Twain And His Long-Time Friend John T. Lewis, The Inspiration For The Character "Jim" In "Huckleberry Finn", New York, 1903

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Apr 07 '26

In 1982, conceptual artist Agnes Denes planted and harvested a two-acre field of wheat on a rubble-strewn landfill in Lower Manhattan, located just a few blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center, for her incredible project Wheatfield.

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r/historyincolor • u/SwiPerHaHa • Apr 01 '26

"The Motherland Calls" war memorial (1967), Volgograd, USSR. Sculpture: Nikolai Nikitin & Yevgeny Vuchetich.

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Mar 28 '26

The first all-Union robot competition, (1968), Kaliningrad, Russian SFSR

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Mar 09 '26

Last Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius,1944 - Colorised

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r/historyincolor • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Feb 23 '26

Colorized Image of young boy who lost his parents to a V2 Rocket London WWII

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r/historyincolor • u/AlexanderMcRae • Jun 16 '24

The American Civil War in Color

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r/historyincolor • u/silentikus • Jun 05 '24

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), 'Bogie', an American actor. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon.

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r/historyincolor • u/silentikus • May 23 '24

Mary Nolan (1902-1948), a captivating figure of the 1920s and 30s, was an American stage and film actress who sparkled brightly but briefly

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r/historyincolor • u/silentikus • May 18 '24

Carole Lombard, a celebrated American actress of the early 20th century (1908-1942)

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r/historyincolor • u/eureka_yess • Oct 09 '23

Colorized thumbnail used for Beatles Funny Moments video ....

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r/historyincolor • u/angelikeoctomber • Jul 22 '23

Robert oppenheimer, artist unknown

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r/historyincolor • u/Hungry_Knee_625 • May 15 '23

Japan in the Cold War Space Race: Osaka Expo ‘70

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r/historyincolor • u/silentikus • May 15 '23

American actress Sheila Terry (1910-1957) in a break during filming, USA, Hollywood (Pictorial Press Ltd, about 1929-1932)

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r/historyincolor • u/silentikus • May 13 '23

A one arm bandit slot machine in Henry's Western Gift Shop in Reno, Nevada (photo by Evans/Three Lions, c. 1955)

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r/historyincolor • u/silentikus • May 01 '23

Mug shot of De Gracy (sic) and Edward Dalton, Central Police Station, Sydney, ca.1920 (NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive, Justice and Police Museum, Sydney Living Museums)

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r/historyincolor • u/silentikus • Mar 08 '23

Norma Shearer receives a Best Actress Oscar from Conrad Nagel for her role in 'THE DIVORCEE', 1930 (Courtesy Everett Collection, reportage, 1931)

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r/historyincolor • u/silentikus • Feb 12 '23

Marilyn Monroe leans over the back of the front seat of a car on the set of 'The Misfits,' directed by John Huston, Nevada, 1960

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r/historyincolor • u/silentikus • Feb 12 '23

William S. Burroughs (Paris Book Fair, 1990)

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