Colorized photos

It might come as a surprise, but it wasn't long after photography became widespread that experiments with color took place, creating vivid images which

Marilyn Monroe is arguably Hollywood’s greatest screen siren and photos of her will be everlasting proof of that. Her enduring image is that of a bubbly

An early autochrome by Clifton R. Adams for National Geographic portrays three generations of a family outside their stone cottage in County Galway, Ireland

These colorized monochrome photos will change the way you imagine the past. Since we live and remember in color, a black-and-white image seems almost of another world. Through the process of colorization, that world becomes more familiar, easier to imagine, and easier to connect to.

When you think of old photos or historical pictures, you naturally think in terms of black and white, but as you can see from these stunning vintage photos from the turn of the 20th century, color pictures have been around for a lot longer than you think.

Colorized photos from the past bring history to life like never before.

London at the end of Victorian era was the most important city in the world. Take a tour of this city and era with these beautiful pictures of a bygone era.

Tired of the endless series of black and white photos that were popular in the day, French banker Albert Kahn decided to do something about it. In 1909, he commissioned four photographers to take their cameras all around the world, and using Autochrome Lumière, to document in color what they saw.

Russian artist Olga Shirnina (also known as 'klimbim') colors archive images of Romanov family.

A number of Reddit users have taken it upon themselves to convert a slew of Civil War photos into beautiful color.