34 amazing examples of coloring old archival photos

From a rare photo of Mark Twain to an incredible bird's-eye view of the Normandy landings, we invite you to take a tour of photographs of important people and events in history, converted from black and white to color. Thanks to modern technology, you can now see what the world of the past was like in all its glory.

1. The inventor of the bulletproof vest tests one of the first prototypes of his creation in 1923 in Washington, DC.

2. Legendary baseball player Lou Gehrig at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, the very day he ended his brilliant sports career due to a terminal illness. Gehrig was one of the best players in MLB and Yankee history and the best first baseman in the 20th century.

3. Protesters in Little Rock, Arkansas, at a rally against school desegregation in 1959.

4. American poet Walt Whitman in 1868.

5. Girls unload ice in 1918.

6. Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before he was killed by Jack Ruby.

7. A pilot of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain at a barber's "reception" in between military operations during the Second World War.

8. Nihang's bodyguard in the service of the Sikh army of the Nizam of Hyderabad. In his right hand he holds the khanda sword, and in his left - a ball and a chain whip. The steel dagger chillanum behind his belt is traditionally associated with South India. In addition, he has a shield, a second sword and a pistol, the back of which is visible from under his left hand. His combat turban is reinforced with razor-sharp throwing rings, miniature blades and steel chains.

9. The Golden Gate Bridge under construction in the 1930s.

10. Claude Monet with his paintings in 1923.

11. In 1942, posters were painted in this room, which were used for propaganda in the United States during World War II.

12. Civil War veterans exchange stories during the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913.

13. Marilyn Monroe.

14. A cook flips burgers at a fair in 1938.

15. Pablo Picasso.

16. A shellfish merchant in Little Italy, New York, 1900.

17. Mark Twain.

18. Helen Keller and Charlie Chaplin in 1919.

19. Elizabeth Taylor in 1956.

20. Abraham Lincoln.

21. Alfred Hitchcock on the set of the film "Birds" in 1963.

22. A boy sells newspapers in London in 1912. The main news is the tragedy of the Titanic.

23. Infamous actress Sharon Tate in the early 1960s.

24. African-American soldiers with shells at Easter 1944. "Easter eggs for Hitler."

25. Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee shortly after surrendering at Appomattox in 1865.

26. Kerb Market in New York around 1900.

27. Audrey Hepburn in the early 1950s.

28. Clint Eastwood in 1962.

29. Photo of the Normandy Landings in 1944. The famous "D-Day".

30. Charles Darwin.

31. Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee University in 1905. This man is one of the most outstanding educators and fighters for the enlightenment of American Negroes, an orator, a politician, a writer.

32. Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, in 1951.

33. Audrey Hepburn in 1953.

34. Albert Einstein in 1921.