In the lead-up to the new year, The Instagram account @HistoryColored has started a countdown of photo colorizations that received the most likes on the page during the year 2021. Combined, these photos received millions of likes and we understand why. They are striking. They have captured historic moments in time so clearly, that the viewer can imagine themselves in the scene. Some of these pictures are hundreds of years old, some only 40 years old. This list has a range from Danish war veterans in 1864 to Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury in 1980. Enjoy this colorful stroll through the past.
Iconic Spanish Civil War photograph taken by Juan Guzmán of 17-year-old Marina Ginestà with an M1916 Spanish Mauser rifle overlooking Barcelona on the 21 July 1936 during the 1936 military uprising in Barcelona.
A Japanese couple taking a self portrait together in c. 1920. Credit: @julius.colorization
US Army soldier, Ivan Babcock of the 165th Signal Photo Company photographed wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave in Siegan, Germany on the 3 April 1945. The cave, which was captured by the US Army, was used by the Germans to store valuable works of art. Credit: @julius.colorization ?
Newly engaged couple, Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier, relaxing at the Kennedy family home in Hyannis Port in Cape Cod, Massachusetts on the 4 July 1953. Credit: @jecinci
The interior of a commercial plane in 1936. The plane belonged to Imperial Airways, the first British commercial airline. Credit: @color_byangelina
Dutch resistance fighters photographed celebrating the liberation of the city of Breda, the Netherlands, by the Polish 1st Armored Division on the 29th October 1944. Credit: @colourisedpieceofjake
Artists working on wax heads at Madame Tussauds in London, England in 1940. Credit: @color_byangelina
Marion Post Wolcott photograph of a coal miner and his family standing outside their home in Bertha Hill, West Virginia in 1938. Credit: @fratuzzi_
A French boy running down a street with a baguette photographed by French photographer Willy Ronis in 1952. Credit: @sebcolorisation
A LEGO showcase station displaying different LEGO building models at a toy store in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1955. Credit: @color_byangelina
American soldiers photographed in 1919 returning home after World War I. Credit: @sebcolorisation
The first person to set foot on the moon and commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong. Photographed speaking to a technician during a suiting at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, in July 1969 shortly before the start of the mission. Credit: @lorenzofolli_history_in_color
Disabled Danish veterans of the Second Schleswig War photographed in 1864. The Second Schleswig War was a conflict with Denmark fighting the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire for control of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg, due to the succession disputes concerning them when the Danish king died without an heir acceptable to the German Confederation. The war ended on 30 October 1864, with the Treaty of Vienna and Denmark's cession of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Saxe-Lauenburg to Prussia and Austria.
Staff Sergeant Joseph "Sonny" Arnaldo of New Bedford, Massachusetts, from Company A, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. Photograph taken in c. 1945 after he had just come off the line after 10 successive days of fighting. Credit: @colourisedpieceofjake
US Army 2nd Lt. Margaret Stanfill, a nurse at the 128th Evacuation Hospital photographed on the 14 June 1944 in Boutteville, France during the Second World War. Stanfill was the first American nurse to set foot in France following the D-Day Invasion. Created: @czcolorization
Estonians in folk costumes during the 2nd Estonian Games in Tallinn, 18 June 1939. Credit: @julius.colorization
Photograph of three female partisans on a Dalmatian island, Yugoslavia in March 1945. Credit: @czcolorization?
A woman posting a letter in a postbox amongst destroyed buildings and rubble caused by German air raids during World War II. Photograph taken in London, United Kingdom in 1940. Credit: @color_byangelina
American actress, model, and singer, Marilyn Monroe, photographed at a military base in Korea in 1954. While in Korea, Monroe participated in a United Service Organizations (USO) show, singing songs from her films for over 60,000 U.S. Marines over a four-day period. Credit: @color_byangelina
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