Up until the 1950s and 1960s, color photography was extremely rare, and so when we think about history prior to that time, we often envision it in black and white.
Colorized photos of French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt and English actress Ellen Terry in the 1860s
Today’s technology now enables us to colorize historical photos, giving us chances at imagination what the world really looked like back then. And it was truly spectacular.
These incredible portrait photos (most of them are celebrities) from the 19th century were colorized by seriykotik1970 that will blow you away.
Portrait of a beautiful woman by the Boston daguerreotypists Southworth and Hawes, about 1848
Swedish opera singer, often known as the ‘Swedish Nightingale’, Jenny Lind, 1950
Irish singer Lola Montez, circa 1851
Irish singer Lola Montez, taken by the Boston photographers Southworth and Hawes, circa 1851
One of the most famous and extravagant courtesans of Paris, with a string of aristocratic and royal lover, Cora Pearl photographed by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, 1854
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