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See Picasso, Churchill and Einstein in colour

They reveal the magic of a bygone era

Newsroom October 8 01:01

Once color photos entered our life, everything changed. The black and white pictures depict something old and past moments. But thanks to a new colorization method, black and white photos give a new dimension to things, revealing the magic of the world before the ’70s.

The famous painter Claude Monet in 1923

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Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart

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Pablo Picasso

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Times Square in New York

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Helen Keller and Charlie Chaplin, 1918

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Girls carrying ice, 1918

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Burger bakers, 1938

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Winston Churchill, 1941

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Albert Einstein, 1921

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Madison Square Park, New York, 1900

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Marilyn Monroe

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Samurai training, 1860

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British soldiers coming back from the war, 1939

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Grocery store in South Carolina, 1939

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Mark Twain, 1900

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Einstein on the beach in Long Island, 1939

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Audrey Hepburn

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Charles Darwin

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Soldiers on Easter during the Second World War

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Clint Eastwood, 1962

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Tests for the first bulletproof vest, 1923

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Charlie Chaplin when he was 27 years old, 1916

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Elizabeth Taylor, 1956

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Louis Armstrong, 1946

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