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Colorized historical photos and videos that will make you feel like you're in a time machine 🧵

1. Jerusalem, April 1897
2. Jesse Owens salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, after defeating Germany's Lutz Long at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. colorization credit: jecinci
3. Arsenal goalkeeper Jack Kelsey peers into the fog, searching for the elusive ball (January 1954).

A similar situation occurred in 1937, when goalkeeper Sam Bartram was left alone on the pitch for 15 minutes after a match was canceled due to heavy fog. colorization credit: jecinci
4. A crowd of angry parents hurl insults at 6 year-old Ruby Bridges as she enters a traditionally all-white school, the first black child to do so in the United States South, 1960. Bridges is 70 years old today. colorization credit: Haxdawg
5. Five-year-old Albert Einstein, 1884 Image
6. A man staring at you from 122 years ago, Denmark in 1902.

7. The Kiss of Life

Randall Champion accidentally touched a high-voltage line, electrifying himself and stopping his heart. Fellow lineman J.D. Thompson performed CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived and lived until 2002. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. Image
8. One of the first cat clips ever, 1899.

"Little girl and cat" by the French Lumiere brothers. Colorized and speed adjusted.

Everything is the same, yet nothing is the same.

9. October 29th, 1929 the last day of the stock market crash that would become known as Black Tuesday. Image
10. Manhattan Waterfront in the 1930s

11. Titanic Survivors Charlotte Collyer and her 8-year-old daughter Marjorie after they finally made it back to America. Image
12. Suspended above the streets of New York, construction workers bring the Chrysler Building to life.

13. Originally titled “The very instant that we heard of Hitler's death on the radioand knew the war was over!”

Dutch resistance members celebrate at the moment they heard of Adolf Hitler’s death over the radio, May 1945. Image
14. Snowball fight from 1897 in Lyon, France

15. Into the Jaws of Death, June 6th, 1944 Image
16. Paris in 1900

17. French girl with her cat in Paris, 1959 Image
18. Young Princess Diana with her guinea pig Peanuts, 1972 Image
19. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, 1934 Image
20. American automobile leap show, 1922

21. Discovery of The bust of Queen Nefertiti was found on 6 December 1912 Image
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22. The Wuppertal Suspension Railway in Germany, 1902.

Opened in 1901, it is still in use, transporting 25 million passengers annually.

23. The last picture of Hachiko, the loyal dog who waited for over nine years outside Shibuya Station for his master to return even after he had died, 1935. Image
24. English children seeing a camera for the first time, 1906.

25. Henry Behrens, the smallest man in the world dances with his pet cat in the doorway of his Worthing home, 1956. Image
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