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Old historical photos have been through expert recoloring and retouching in order to bring the past back to the present, and give us a look at how these famous people and historical scenes truly looked like" |
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Lewis Powell, part of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy, 1865
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General of the Army, Ulysses S. Grant, 1868
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Mark Twain, ca. 1909
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Thomas Edison, John Burroughs, and Henry Ford, Ft. Myers, Florida. March 1914
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Old Gold Country store, 1939
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| Rescued inmates at nazi concentration camp Wobbelin, 1945 |
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London during WWII, 1945
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40mm guns firing aboard USS Hornet, February 1945
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| Clint Eastwood checks his gun at home on June 1, 1956 in Los Angeles, California |
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| Steve McQueen’s 1957 Jaguar XK-SS |
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| Malcolm X, African-American Muslim Minister, 1960′s |
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| Louis & Lucille Armstrong, Cairo, 1961 |
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| The Beatles, 1962 |
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Young Elizabeth Taylor
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Pablo Picasso sits in front of his painting The Kitchen
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| Rear Admiral of the Union Navy, John Lorimer Worden – 1863 |
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