See history in colors: 30 colored archive photos from Sebastian de Oliveira

Parisian Sebastian de Oliveira (Sébastien de Oliveira) is a photographer and computer graphics specialist. And he is also a big fan of old photos. He finds interesting historical pictures and colors them, helping contemporaries to look at history with a completely new look.

Sebastian's tools are documentary descriptions of those years, his own imagination and a Photoshop editor. And the result of the work looks so impressive that it is a sin not to share it. 

Below is a selection of 30 wonderful historical images that look completely different in color.

The Happy Couple, 1948

Circus Girls in Sarasota, Florida – Nina Lin, 1949

Blue Island, Illinois, a family goes to the movies-Jack Delano, 1943

Jacqueline Cochrane (1906-1980), 1939

Chicago, 1941

Althea Gibson - winner of Wimbledon with her teammate DarlinHard, 1957

Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), 1956

Parisian girls at the fair, 1935

A Family of Cherry Pickers – John Vashon, 1940

Girls and Cars, 1942

New York, 1942-Marjorie Collins

Beaches of England during the war, 1941

A Rainy Day in Pittsburgh – John Vashon, 1941

On California Highway 99, 1937-Dorothy Lang

Saturday Night in Florence, Alabama, 1942

France, 1967, anonymous author

A bar in New York's Central Park, 1942-Marjorie Collins

Washington in 1935

Young actresses sunbathe as part of the promotion of the film at the Cannes Film Festival, 1957

O'Reilly's Bar, New York, 1942-Marjorie Collins

Marilyn Monroe while relaxing on the set – Eva Arnold, 1960

Family picnic by the river in Nachitochis, Louisiana, 1940 – Marion Post Walcott

American soldiers return home from the First World War, 1919

Ingmar Bergman, Humphrey Bogart and Michael Curtis on the set of "Casablanca", 1939

Union Station, Chicago, 1943-Jack Delano

Horse Racing Spectators in Worthington, Maryland, 1941 – Marion Post Walcott

Texas in 1939

Glen Echo Park, Montgomery, Mayland, 1943

Waiting for the bus, 1943

French soldiers on leave in Paris, Gare de l'est, 1916

Keywords: History | Past | Photo project | Color photos | Black and white photography

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