32 Colorized Black and White Photos That Will Change How You Look at History

Abraham Lincoln, 1865

King George V at Buckingham Palace (1914) before the outbreak of war

J. Hamilton Lewis, representative for Washington (1897-1899) and Senator for Illinois (1913-1919, 1931-1939). He was the first Senator to hold the title of 'Whip' in the Senate, later served once more as the 5th Whip, and served in the Spanish-American war - ca. 1913

Erwin Rommel as a Lieutenant, wearing a Pour le Mérite after the Battle of Caporetto, Italy 1917

Marie Curie in her laboratory in Paris, 1912

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his children with Cossack officers, 1916

Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan at Antietam, October 2nd/3rd, 1862

Richard Pierce–14 years of age, works as a Western Union Telegraph Messenger. Wilmington, Delaware, ca. May 1910

Thomas Edison with his second phonograph, photographed by Matthew Brady in Washington, April 1878

Portrait of a Sámi immigrant, Ellis Island, 1910

School at Anthoston, Kentucky. By Lewis Hine, 1916

The Eiffel Tower, July 1888

Suffragists in Parade, c.1910-1915

The Cow Boy, Sturgis, Dakota Territory, c. 1888

Confederate soldier and family, c. 1860s

Harry Houdini steps into a crate at New York Harbor as part of an escape stunt, July 7, 1912

Post officers model their new Autopeds scooters, Washington DC, 1917

Licking blocks of ice during heat wave in 1912, NYC

Booker T. Washington in his Tuskegee University office, ca. 1906

The Jersey Shore c. 1905 “Boardwalk at Asbury Park”

Charlie Chaplin at 27, no makeup, 1916

French soldiers during the Franco Prussian War, 1870

Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author and poet, 1869

Alfred R. Waud, renowned sketch artist, known mostly for work as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War, seen here sketching at Gettysburg, July 1863

Silent film actress Mary Pickford, c. 1920

Edgar Allen Poe, 1848

Italian immigrants arrive at Ellis Island, 1905. Their worried expressions are caused by lost baggage.

Walt Whitman, 1887

Seth Kinman, one of the earliest settlers of California, sitting on a chair he gave to President Andrew Johnson made out of a grizzly bear. He also gave a chair made of elk horns to President Lincoln, ca. 1865 

Japanese Archers c. 1860

Mary Winsor, founder and president of the Limited Suffrage Society, holds a sign during the American suffrage movement; ca. 1917 

John L. Burns, the 'Old Hero of Gettysburg,' with gun and crutches, ca. July 1863