Photography has been around for over a hundred years, but in the early days, everything was in black and white.
If you ever wondered what some of those famous and iconic old-school pictures looked like as they were seen in real life, then take a colorful glimpse into the past with these historical photographs that have been given a second life.
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1948 - Scottish ballerina Moira Shearer plays dancer Victoria Page in the classic film 'The Red Shoes'
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A captured Russian T-28 tank with a Finnish crew driving through the village of Lappee, Finland on the 8 July 1941.
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A group of breaker boys at the Woodward Coal Mines in Kingston, Pennsylvania, pose for a photograph. Photograph taken in c. 1900.
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29th October 1949 A police officer directing traffic at a road junction in Hong Kong
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A Newsstand on 23rd and 6th Avenue in New York City photographed in c. 1903
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A young family in Martin Place, Sydney - Australia, (1950s)
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A 1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri, awaiting the opening of orange picking season in Porterville, California.
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A sharecropper near White Plains, Georgia. 1941.
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A young Josef Stalin in 1911
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A French soldier giving a British soldier a shave in a dugout in Boezinge, Belgium on 19 August 1917
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Albert Einstein posing for a photograph in Zurich, Switzerland at the age of 24 in 1903
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A baby learning how to walk in a wicker frame as mom does laundry. 1910s.
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A French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France (1945)
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4C Phantom of the Alabama ANG over St. Louis, 1993
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26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, who’s term spanned from 1901 when McKinley was assassinated, to 1909
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1948 Tucker Torpedo Model 48 4-door sedan
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1942 my father, stepmother, and siblings in Smith Center Kansas where our stepmother's relatives lived. Our birth mother died from cancer on our farm in 1939 near Emery South Dakota where we lived. Our car was a 1929 Chevrolet. Dad married our housekeeper and we visited her relatives. Our stepmother cared for us as if she was our very own mother.
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28-year-old Robert Leroy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, photographed in 1894
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A 22-year-old Theodore Roosevelt photographed during his college years at Harvard. Taken in c. 1880
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37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon, and world famous singer, Elvis Presley, meeting and shaking hands in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, D.C. on 21 October 1970
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5 year old Anne Frank, Picture taken by her father Otto.
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A Native American, belonging to the Ojibwe people, spear fishing in a lake somewhere in Minnesota, United States. Photograph taken in 1908
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1897 grandma's peeling vegetables for granddaughters dinner
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An American LaFrance Steam Fire Engine No. 496, 1904
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A street scene in Chicago, Illinois, photographed by Bill Strum in 1947.
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A 68-year-old Albert Einstein having his portrait taken by photographer Orren Jack Turner in 1947
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1947 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible!
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Antique photograph of Lowestoft (East Suffolk uk)
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1946 Hillman Ten Estate...
