The most iconic historical footage is now in color

Black-and-white images give the false impression that the events depicted on them took place hundreds of years earlier than they actually were. But as soon as you add color to the image, the image takes on a completely different look — it seems that you are looking at the frame for the first time.

We offer you to see the brightest and most interesting historical moments in color. 

Marilyn Monroe.

Booker Tagliaferro Washington, one of the leading advocates for the enlightenment of African Americans, in his office at Tuskegee University, 1906.

Picnickers in Sarasota, USA, 1941.

Armed troops block a road near the site of an explosion at an oil plant in Texas, April 17, 1947.

General Robert E. Lee a week after the surrender of General Ulysses S. Grant, which ended the Civil War, on April 16, 1865.

The boardwalk at Luna Park on Coney Island, New York, 1905.

Louis Armstrong rehearsing backstage, 1946.

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, 1935.

Production of propaganda posters during the Second World War, Port Washington, 1942.

Portrait of a family near Muskogee, Oklahoma, during a drought, August 1939.

Madison Square, 1900.

Norman Rockwell enters Stockbridge Studios in Massachusetts, 1966.

A man collects burgers, 1938.

Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939.

Comedian and singer Ernie Hare shows his attitude to prohibition, 1920.

"Oasis in the Wasteland", Red Hawk of the Oglala Sioux on horseback, 1905.

College students check the capacity of the car "Volkswagen beetle", 1965.

Tufts University baseball team, studio shot, 1890.

Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon (1970).

Jimmy Stewart (30s).

Pablo Picasso.

Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassin, November 23, 1963. He had only one day left to live.

Winston Churchill, 1941.

Albert Einstein, 1921.

A boy delivering newspapers.

Japanese archers at the shooting range, ca. 1860.

The crash of the airship "Hindenburg", May 6, 1937.

British troops depart for the Western Front, England, September 20, 1939.

Joan Crawford on the set of Letty Linton, 1932.

Village shop Old Gold, 1939.

Mark Twain in the garden, circa 1900.

Albert Einstein, summer of 1939.

Audrey Hepburn in her kitchen.

Charles Darwin.

"Easter eggs" from American soldiers to Hitler, Easter Eve, 1945.

Clint Eastwood, 1960.

Charlie Chaplin at the age of 27, without makeup, 1916.

Elizabeth Taylor on the set of The Giant, 1952.

Blues saxophonist Big J. McNeely and his fans, Los Angeles, 1953.

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife Lucille in Cairo, Egypt, 1961.

The boxing match between Ray Campbell and Dick Highland, May 1913.

William Monroe, 1924. He bought and sold stolen goods.

Sophia Loren and Jane Mansfield, the 1960s.

The three Kennedy brothers who became a powerful political triumvirate (1962): John became president, Robert became Justice Secretary, and Edward became a senator.

Clint Eastwood at work, 1960.

A barber cuts the hair of an RAF pilot during a break between flights.

Car accident in Washington, 1921.

President Lincoln with Major General McClernand and Alan Pinkerton, 1862.