Thanks to modern technology, we can now see the past more accurately through color photographs. Prior to the 1970s, most photographs were taken using black and white film.
1966 This is perhaps the earliest, action video camera
While these images are an important tool to help us understand the past, we can get more detail from digitally colored photos. We can see the colorful world where our ancestors lived. This set of color photos shows us the world.
In 1949 he was the heaviest man in the world
This photo, taken in 1988, shows Arnold Schwarzenegger meeting fans in Moscow
In 1919, Mary Ann Bevan, also known as "the ugliest woman in London".
Robert Wadlow was the tallest man in history, standing 8 feet 11.1 inches, and Clarence Howerton, one of the smallest people alive at the time, was 2 feet 4 inches, and they compared shoe sizes from 1937.
A giant spider crab discovered in Japan in 1904
In 1906, an Italian officer rode down a mountain on a war horse at the Italian Cavalry School. The goal of the training is to make the officer and their horse one - the rider must have complete trust in his horse, and vice versa.
German soldier Oskar Hilner sitting in a cauldron with MG08 machine gun, 1916, World War I.
He knew that thick metal would protect him from enemy bullets, so he turned it into a turret-like foxhole.
In the 1880s, James Wide, a two-legged amputated railroad signalman, worked with his pet and assistant, Jack Baboon, in Cape Town.
In the 1880s, a baboon named Jack rose to fame by working as an assistant to James "Jumper", a South African railway worker. Wide lost both legs in an accident and trained Jack to push a wheelchair and operate railway signals. Jack is very skilled in his work and never makes mistakes.
Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Anne
A true member of the Peaky Blinders street gang based in Birmingham, England, active from the late 1800s to the 1910s.
In 1944, a British sniper displayed his camouflage at a French sniper school.
Tasmanian tigers before their extinction in 1936.
The poor guy in this 1936 color photograph is the last of his kind. He is a thylacine, often referred to as the Tasmanian tiger, which was once a top predator but encouraged humans to hunt them to keep them away from livestock. By 1936, the Tasmanian tiger was gone.
Culture with elongated heads - Mangbetu
Cologne Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The cathedral suffered fourteen aerial bomb attacks during World War II, but it still stands, while everything around it is mostly razed to the ground.
Germany's Cologne Cathedral and its twin minarets are easily recognizable landmarks for fighter pilots and bombers during World War II, during which the cathedral was hit by 14 aerial bombs. As you can see in this color photo, most of the buildings around the church were razed to the ground, but the cathedral stood tall, albeit badly damaged. Repairs to the building began immediately after the war and were completed in 1956.
Profile of Josep Broz Tito after his arrest in 1928.
Before becoming President of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito earned a reputation as a revolutionary and activist.
A woman in a tennis costume photographed for Harper's Bazaar magazine in 1947.
American photographer Toni Frissell, who took this stunning color photograph for Harper's Bazaar in 1947, was a top fashion photographer who contributed to the war effort during World War II.
She worked for the American Red Cross and the Eighth Army Air Force before becoming the official photographer for the Women's Army. Her photographs capture the toils of people from all walks of life, including toddlers, frontline soldiers, weary nurses, fighter pilots, widowed widows and African-American pilots. After the war, she was a portrait photographer for the rich and famous, a photojournalist for Life and Sports Illustrated, and a top fashion photographer.
Stack! Three crew members of the USS Duane of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1930s.
A Navajo woman uses a loom in the shade of a cotton grove, probably in Shelley Canyon, Arizona, circa 1907.
Australian soldiers receive custom-made prostheses at Australia's Second Auxiliary Hospital in Southor, England, circa 1916.
American soldiers look at German 88-mm AA-AT guns. World war ii
The German 88-mm anti-aircraft anti-tank gun was a formidable weapon. It was widely used by the German army throughout World War II. The Germans had been working on this weapon since World War I, so by the outbreak of World War II, artillery could fire explosives more than four miles into the air, with a maximum ground range of more than six miles. Allied soldiers in this color photograph examine German weapons with a mixture of fear and admiration.
Cadillac at the LaSalle Service Station in 1932.
In 1940, three German soldiers crossed the river in a BMW R75 equipped with a sidecar.
Hedy Lamarr, the golden age of Hollywood actress and inventor of GPS.
Brain and beauty. The stunning Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr is widely regarded as one of the best actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. But did you know that she was also an outstanding genius and inventor? In the early days of World War II, she helped invent a radio guidance system for firing torpedoes. It uses a frequency hopping system to prevent it from being hacked. Her work on radio spectrum technology was ahead of its time. Later, Lamarr's work was covered in dust, and the principles she developed were used as the basis for Wifi, GPS technology and Bluetooth.
The Brooklyn Supreme is the largest horse in the world, weighing 3,200 pounds
In 1990, the first McDonald's customer team at its grand opening in Moscow.
Workers pose next to the chain of the 1910 Titanic anchor.
A smiling postman poses with a pile of Christmas packages in Chicago in 1929.
Sir En McLaren stand-in on the set of The Lord of the Rings: The Lord of the Rings
Betty Robinson was the first Olympic gold medallist in the women's 100-meter dash in 1928 – she was only 16 years old