Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

by Patrick Penrose Published Nov 13, 2025

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#1 Actress Marie Doro, 1902

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#2 Ella Fitzgerald, 1946, Photography By William P. Gottlieb

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#3 Actress And Singer Svea Textorius, 1910

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#4 Czar Nikolaus II

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#5 Oscar Wilde, 1882

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#6 Christmas Truce, 1914

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#7 Female War Workers Feed The Charcoal Kilns Used For Purifying Sugar At The Glebe Sugar Refinery Co., Greenock, Scotland, 1918

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#8 Wolf Robe, Cheyenne Indian Chief, 1904

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#9 Albert Einstein, His Wife Elsa And Charlie Chaplin At The Premiere Of “City Lights” In Los Angeles, 1931

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#10 Photographer’s Assistant, 1900

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#11 An Eleven-Year-Old Frida Kahlo By Guillermo Kahlo, June 15, 1919

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#12 Sir Winston Churchill

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#13 Georges Méliès, Montparnasse Station In Paris, 1920s

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#14 Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, Photo By Joel Bellviure

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#15 Taking The Christmas Tree Home, Chelsea, London, 1914

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#16 “Abbott And Costello Go To Mars”, 1953

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#17 Sitting Bull By D.F. Barry, 1883, Dakota Territory

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#18 A Young Mexican Farm Worker Plays Guitar And Sings In A Coachella Valley Labor Camp, 1935. Photographer Dorothea Lange, Gelatin Silver Print, Collection Of Oakland Museum Of California

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#19 An Old Navajo Brave Huddled In A Blanket, Ca. 1901

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#20 Destitute Pea Pickers In California. Mother Of Seven Children. Age Thirty-Two. Nipomo, California

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#21 Ponca Indians, 1865

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#22 American Soldier Opening Red Cross Christmas Box, 1917

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#23 Two Nasa Engineers Test A Scale Model Of A Saturn I Rocket In A Wind Tunnel, 1960s

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#24 Sigmund Freud By Max Halberstadt,1920

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#25 Peter Tchaikovsky

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#26 The Three Polar Stars, 1913

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#27 North American B-25s Flies Past Mount Vesuvius Which Erupted On The 18th March 1944, Destroying The Village San Sebastiano & San Giorge, Killing 57

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#28 Launch Of Steamer Frank J. Hecker, September 2, 1905, St. Clair, Michigan

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#29 Samuel Morse, 1865

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

#30 Miss Car Wash, 1951

Thousands Of Hours Later, Here Are 30 Old Black & White Photos Of Famous And Ordinary People That I Colorized

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