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Some of the world's most iconic and legendary photos were taken during a period in time when image color
processing wasn't available.
Historic black and white images made a lasting impact on the world and stood the test of time.
Now, thanks to the digital process of colorization, these photos from famed photographers and more can now be
seen in color.
Take a trip back in time through history by seeing these iconic black and white images transformed into color
photos.
Famed photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic 1945 image of a sailor kissing a
nurse on 'V-J Day' in Times Square.
American photographer and photojournalist Eddie Adams tookthe photo above of a Vietcong Guerrilla being executed in 1968
during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.
Photographer Alexander Gardner took the last living photograph of President Abraham
Lincoln in 1865.
The image above shows a group of men inside one of the HooverDam turbines in the early 1930s while it was being built.
Eric Arthur Blair used the pen name George Orwell as an English
novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.
The photo above shows two men testing out a bulletproofvest on September 13, 1932 in Washington, D.C.
Photographer Ruth Orkin captured the image above
of Albert Einstein at a Princeton University
luncheon in 1953.
The image above captured by Joe Rosenthal shows U.S. Marinesraising the American flag during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (above) who is better known
by his pen name, Mark Twain, was a famed American author and humorist. Above he is
photographed relaxing in a garden.
During the Great Ohio River Flood of 1937, the above photocaptured by Margaret Bourke-White shows people lining up
to seek food and clothing from a Kentucky relief station.
Photographer Dorothea Lange took the image
above of Florence Owens Thompson and her children
in 1936 in Nipomo, California. At the time, Lange was concluding a
month's trip photographing migratory farm labor
around the state.
An unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife tot he bean harvestin August of 1939. The image captured by Dorothea Lange shows the
Oregon man's arm tattoo of his Social Security number.
The photograph above shows the gentleman in
uniform, Mauretania's first Chief Engineer, John
Currie, and other gentlemen in
1909 at the Canada Dock, Liverpool.
Fashion photographer Toni Frissell captured the above image of amodel floating in the water at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida.
It was published in Harper's Bazaar in December 1947.
Photographer Dorothea Lange snapped the image above ofmen at a country store in Gordonton, North Carolina in 1939.
Quang Duc (above), a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese
government. Malcolm Browne captured the image above in 1963.
The photo above shows the a nuclear weapons test being conducted by the United States in 1946 at Bikin Atoll. Operation Crossroads became the first
nuclear weapons to be donated since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.
The above photograph shows Charles Robert Darwin, the Englishnaturalist and geologist who is best known for his contributions
to the theory of evolution.
May 27, 1944 - Jewish women and children arriving at theAuschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in occupied Poland.
Outside the White Star Line offices in London, a newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of the disaster. (April 16,
1912)
Some of the first American soldiers in Higgins Boats approachOmaha Beach near Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.