16 Colorized Portraits Photos of Celebrities From the 19th Century

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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

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