100 Rare Historical Photos From The Past You Have Never Seen, Restored In Color
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100 rare historical photographs from 1858 to 2007, picked from the ones people shared most. Each one first in black and white as it survives today, then restored in color, with the story of what you are looking at read aloud.
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Photographs in this film:
0:06 1858 A Napoleon veteran poses in
0:19 1885 Two well-dressed gentlemen and
0:32 1888 The Eiffel Tower under
0:45 1891 A US toilet paper patent, 1891
0:58 1892 Princess Victoria Louise of
1:11 1893 Only two horsepower, but talk
1:24 1897 Native American father and son
1:37 1899 The Gran Hotel in Mexico City
1:50 1900 The Apache chief Geronimo and
2:03 1903 The two Kashmir Giants pose
2:16 1905 Two boys sit inside the
2:29 1905 A young man shows off his brand
2:42 1907 New Year's Eve in Manhattan
2:55 1910 Emperor Franz Joseph I posed as
3:08 1910 A Bailey Electric car on its
3:21 1910 A Swedish Sámi family in front
3:34 1913 The shortest, tallest and
3:47 1915 The French Army's wine stock
4:00 1915 Sandbags protect the choir
4:13 1918 The control room of a German
4:26 1919 A tank bursts and sends a wave
4:39 1919 Mack Sennett's bathing
4:52 1920 The French painter Claude Monet
5:05 1925 A farm school in Missouri
5:18 1926 Four men climb the Brooklyn
5:31 1928 An Aboriginal girl holds a
5:44 1928 A woman wears a mask to shield
5:57 1929 Rescuing a horse that fell into
6:10 1932 Children smile out a window as
6:23 1932 Long lines of unemployed men
6:36 1932 Passengers board a new Pan
6:49 1932 A makeshift shack in a
7:02 1932 A Finnish woman sunbathes after
7:15 1933 One of many Americans looking
7:28 1935 A baby cage hangs from an
7:41 1937 A migrant family crosses the
7:54 1937 Toffs and toughs: the photo
8:07 1941 Liberty ships under
8:20 1942 American soldiers on a landing
8:33 1942 A woman drives the new answer
8:46 1943 A US soldier's pistol grip
8:59 1944 The Parade of the Vanquished
9:12 1944 A French resident offers a
9:25 1945 Dresden in ruins, March
9:38 1945 Some of the first Volkswagen
9:51 1945 Women smoking hookahs in Cairo
10:04 1945 Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki
10:17 1945 The damaged USS Franklin
10:30 1947 A golden-blond Rita on her
10:43 1948 At home with the world: a
10:56 1949 Inside the Ford plant in Dallas
11:09 1950 The Epic of Gilgamesh, the
11:22 1950 Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez
11:35 1952 Marilyn Monroe as Miss
11:48 1953 Rows of iron lungs fill a polio
12:01 1954 Marilyn Monroe performs for
12:14 1955 A laundromat in Fort Worth
12:27 1955 Sophia Loren
12:40 1957 Marilyn Monroe at the premiere
12:53 1957 A 14-year-old Joe Pesci
13:06 1959 Marilyn Monroe and her makeup
13:19 1962 Schoolchildren recite the
13:32 1963 Jayne Mansfield and Frank
13:45 1965 Claudia Cardinale at the Venice
13:58 1965 Helen Mirren rehearses
14:11 1965 Salvador Dalí paints on Raquel
14:24 1966 The Great Blizzard of 1966
14:37 1966 Miniskirts and knee-high boots
14:50 1967 A mod in swinging London
15:03 1967 People dance at the Human
15:16 1968 Casino security overlooks the
15:29 1969 Refrigerator advertisement from
15:42 1969 High school teacher Sandy
15:55 1971 Soviet engineers set a gas
16:08 1971 Captain Richard Flaherty, 4
16:21 1971 Pacific Southwest Airlines
16:34 1972 Dick Cavett interviews Raquel
16:47 1973 A hippie girl sells roadside
17:00 1973 The Valley of Tears in the
17:13 1975 A bank vacuum tube
17:26 1975 Street fashion in the
17:39 1976 A group of hippies gathered
17:52 1976 Kenny Baker eats lunch behind
18:05 1978 Ladies on roller skates glide
18:18 1979 Joop Sinjou of Philips
18:31 1983 An early mobile phone used by a
18:44 1985 Glamorous blouses of the
18:57 1985 How we used to unfriend people
19:10 1985 Gravitron rides in the 1980s
19:23 1985 Calling home from the dorms in
19:36 1986 Jennifer Connelly and Ludo on
19:49 1986 Liquidators prepare to clear
20:02 1987 Brigitte Nielsen and Sylvester
20:15 1989 Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn at
20:28 1990 The Great Pyramids of Giza
20:41 1991 Linda Hamilton with her
20:54 1993 Yugoslavia hyperinflation peaks
21:07 1996 A LAN party in the
21:20 1998 Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
21:33 2007 The Harry Potter crew on the
The photographs are real. The color is restored with AI; nothing in the pictures themselves is generated.
#historicalphotos #rarephotos #history
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100 Rare Historical Photos From The Past You Have Never Seen, Restored In Color
Never Gray
80 views
100 rare historical photographs from 1858 to 2007, picked from the ones people shared most. Each one first in black and white as it survives today, then restored in color, with the story of what you are looking at read aloud.
More films in this series: Rare Historical Photos Restored In Color
Photographs in this film:
0:06 1858 A Napoleon veteran poses in
0:19 1885 Two well-dressed gentlemen and
0:32 1888 The Eiffel Tower under
0:45 1891 A US toilet paper patent, 1891
0:58 1892 Princess Victoria Louise of
1:11 1893 Only two horsepower, but talk
1:24 1897 Native American father and son
1:37 1899 The Gran Hotel in Mexico City
1:50 1900 The Apache chief Geronimo and
2:03 1903 The two Kashmir Giants pose
2:16 1905 Two boys sit inside the
2:29 1905 A young man shows off his brand
2:42 1907 New Year's Eve in Manhattan
2:55 1910 Emperor Franz Joseph I posed as
3:08 1910 A Bailey Electric car on its
3:21 1910 A Swedish Sámi family in front
3:34 1913 The shortest, tallest and
3:47 1915 The French Army's wine stock
4:00 1915 Sandbags protect the choir
4:13 1918 The control room of a German
4:26 1919 A tank bursts and sends a wave
4:39 1919 Mack Sennett's bathing
4:52 1920 The French painter Claude Monet
5:05 1925 A farm school in Missouri
5:18 1926 Four men climb the Brooklyn
5:31 1928 An Aboriginal girl holds a
5:44 1928 A woman wears a mask to shield
5:57 1929 Rescuing a horse that fell into
6:10 1932 Children smile out a window as
6:23 1932 Long lines of unemployed men
6:36 1932 Passengers board a new Pan
6:49 1932 A makeshift shack in a
7:02 1932 A Finnish woman sunbathes after
7:15 1933 One of many Americans looking
7:28 1935 A baby cage hangs from an
7:41 1937 A migrant family crosses the
7:54 1937 Toffs and toughs: the photo
8:07 1941 Liberty ships under
8:20 1942 American soldiers on a landing
8:33 1942 A woman drives the new answer
8:46 1943 A US soldier's pistol grip
8:59 1944 The Parade of the Vanquished
9:12 1944 A French resident offers a
9:25 1945 Dresden in ruins, March
9:38 1945 Some of the first Volkswagen
9:51 1945 Women smoking hookahs in Cairo
10:04 1945 Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki
10:17 1945 The damaged USS Franklin
10:30 1947 A golden-blond Rita on her
10:43 1948 At home with the world: a
10:56 1949 Inside the Ford plant in Dallas
11:09 1950 The Epic of Gilgamesh, the
11:22 1950 Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez
11:35 1952 Marilyn Monroe as Miss
11:48 1953 Rows of iron lungs fill a polio
12:01 1954 Marilyn Monroe performs for
12:14 1955 A laundromat in Fort Worth
12:27 1955 Sophia Loren
12:40 1957 Marilyn Monroe at the premiere
12:53 1957 A 14-year-old Joe Pesci
13:06 1959 Marilyn Monroe and her makeup
13:19 1962 Schoolchildren recite the
13:32 1963 Jayne Mansfield and Frank
13:45 1965 Claudia Cardinale at the Venice
13:58 1965 Helen Mirren rehearses
14:11 1965 Salvador Dalí paints on Raquel
14:24 1966 The Great Blizzard of 1966
14:37 1966 Miniskirts and knee-high boots
14:50 1967 A mod in swinging London
15:03 1967 People dance at the Human
15:16 1968 Casino security overlooks the
15:29 1969 Refrigerator advertisement from
15:42 1969 High school teacher Sandy
15:55 1971 Soviet engineers set a gas
16:08 1971 Captain Richard Flaherty, 4
16:21 1971 Pacific Southwest Airlines
16:34 1972 Dick Cavett interviews Raquel
16:47 1973 A hippie girl sells roadside
17:00 1973 The Valley of Tears in the
17:13 1975 A bank vacuum tube
17:26 1975 Street fashion in the
17:39 1976 A group of hippies gathered
17:52 1976 Kenny Baker eats lunch behind
18:05 1978 Ladies on roller skates glide
18:18 1979 Joop Sinjou of Philips
18:31 1983 An early mobile phone used by a
18:44 1985 Glamorous blouses of the
18:57 1985 How we used to unfriend people
19:10 1985 Gravitron rides in the 1980s
19:23 1985 Calling home from the dorms in
19:36 1986 Jennifer Connelly and Ludo on
19:49 1986 Liquidators prepare to clear
20:02 1987 Brigitte Nielsen and Sylvester
20:15 1989 Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn at
20:28 1990 The Great Pyramids of Giza
20:41 1991 Linda Hamilton with her
20:54 1993 Yugoslavia hyperinflation peaks
21:07 1996 A LAN party in the
21:20 1998 Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
21:33 2007 The Harry Potter crew on the
The photographs are real. The color is restored with AI; nothing in the pictures themselves is generated.
#historicalphotos #rarephotos #history
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