Digicolored: June 2011

August 28 1963, Washington Memorial.

December 1941, USS Arizona explodes and sinks, hundreds of casualties.

Prince Charles and his mother. (via)

Exactly 100 years ago today. June 21st 2011, the harbor of Greymouth

1920 Lenin addresses crowd (2)

Life 1947 advertisement

April 20th 1945, young German boy at liberated Bergen-Belsen camp
(Warning: graphic image, click to enlarge)

Men, women and children from the Siedcle ghetto forced into cattle trains to Nazi extermination camp Treblinka

"Hilbert Malbury" reads the mirrored caption. Photo taken around 1863. Original BW via ilovenewmexicoblog.com

Beautiful family picture. Original BW via Christina Madsen blog.

U.S. army 70th division troops in Saarbrucken. Original BW picture via trailblazersww2.org

Karl Marx (1818-1883) Philosopher, economic historian, journalist, revolutionairy socialist. 'Marxism'

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Inventor, engineer, pioneer.

Writer Mark Twain (1835-1910).

George Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935). Chef, restaurateur, culinary writer

Famous footage used in propaganda were these people are pictured watching German Soldiers on Avenue des Champs-Élysées. However, this was in Lyon where French flags were to be sent to Algeria.

(1890-1920) Son of German Kaizer Wilhelm II, great grandson of queen Victoria

Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), "Dr.Livingstone, I presume?"

Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) and his adopted son Kalulu (1865-1877)
(updated after double check, this not Livingstone)

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the telephone, co-founder National Geographic Society.

Walt Disney (1901-1966)

1900s miner boy, a 'trapper'


1900s child labor

1961 Young Beatles posing

Yalta conference with Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

The first motorized flight ever. Wright Flyer 1.

1900s West Palm Beach

19th century house in Washington


Painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Titanic at dock

Titanic at sea

Shipyard, construction of the Titanic and Olympic

Titanic machinery in factory

Inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) and his second Phonograph sound recorder.

Market square ~1920's


1950s Sint Oedenrode, hotel de Gouden Leeuw	Sint Oedenrode Hotel de Gouden Leeuw

Borghmolendijk at the old watermill

Head on display in a park in Paris, France

Sioux Chief Sitting Bull (1831-1890)

Child labor: long days, hard and dangerous work, underpayed. See Shorpy.com to learn more about this boy.

September 1944, 101st Airborne paratrooper with civilians. Operation Market Garden.

Devastating earthquake of 1907

U.S. soldiers, Ruhr pocket, Germany 1945

Random family portrait, probably ~1900

Queen Victoria of England (1818-1901)

~1850 Queen Sophie of the Netherlands (1818-1877)

Queen Emma of the Netherlands (1858-1935), great-grandmother of Queen Beatrix van Oranje

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

August 6 1945, dramatic Hiroshima firestorm ignited by the atomic bombing