Faces Of The Past in Color | Otto Von Bismarck, Queen Victoria, Mark Twain, General Custer and more!

These historical people changed the world forever and now you can see them once again, in full color. Celebrities of their day, their impact is still being felt in the modern era, with fields such as engineering, nursing and the arts still influenced by their remarkable lives.

I used Photoshop to bring to life these Black and White photos from the past. Restoring and colorizing these portraits using technology and artistic skill to help these people be seen as they once were!

Please let me know which of these restored photographs is your favourite!

IMAGE SOURCES

[Mary Todd Lincoln]
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017896163/
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
[reproduction number,LC-DIG-cwpbh-01024]
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.01...
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
[reproduction number,LC-DIG-cwpbh-01026]
Photographer: Levin C. Handy

[Mark Twain]
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.5...
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
[LC-DIG-ppmsca-54115]
Photographer: Frances Benjamin Johnston

[Harriet Tubman]
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.200...
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Object number: NPG.2006.86
Photographer: H. Seymour Squyer

[Edgar Allan Poe]
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/...
allan-poe-american-late-may-early-june-1849/
Object Number [84.XT.957]
Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Photographer: Unknown





[Charles Darwin]
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/...
wellcomeImagesUrl=/indexplus/image/V0026272.html
Reference: Wellcome Library no. 12614i
Charles Robert Darwin. Photograph by L. Darwin.
Credit:
Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Image Digitally Coloured by JBColourisation

[Louisa May Alcott]
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.5...
Photographer:George Kendall Warren
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
[reproduction number,LC-DIG-ppmsca-53264]

[Edmonia Lewis]
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.94.95?
destination=node/63231%3Fedan_q%3DEdmonia%2520Lewis
Photographer:Henry Rocher
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Object number: NPG.94.95

[George Armstrong Custer]
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.03...
Photographer: Possibly W. H. Illingworth
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War
Photographs, [reproduction number, LC-DIG-cwpbh-03110]

[Florence Nightingale]
https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.5...
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
[reproduction number,LC-DIG-ppmsca-57163]
Photographer: H. Lenthall

[Frederick Douglass]
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/145681...
Reference Number: 1996.433
The Art Institute of Chicago
Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment
Photographer: Samuel J. Miller

[Charles Dickins]
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/po...
charles-dickens-1861
The British Library
System Number: 001272468
Photographer:George Herbert Watkins

[Otto Von Bismarck]
Scanned By Me From Postcard
Photographer Unknown, possibly Loescher & Petsch

[Oscar Wilde]
http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph....
Photographer: Napoleon Sarony

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
[reproduction number,LC-DIG-ppmsca-07757]

[Queen Victoria]
https://www.si.edu/object/portrait-qu...
victoria:saam_1906.9.24?edan_q=queen%2Bvictoria&edan_fq
%5B0%5D=media_usage:CC0&oa=1&destination=/search/collection-
images&searchResults=1&id=saam_1906.9.24
Photographer Unknown, possibly Walery or W & D. Downey
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Harriet Lane
Johnston
Object number: 1906.9.24

[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]
Photographer: London Stereoscope & Photographic Company
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
=&imgno=0&tabname=label
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift,
2005
Accession Number: 2005.100.11

[Olive Thomas]
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014701360/
Photographer: Bains News Service
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
[reproduction number, LC-DIG-ggbain-21422]

[Grand Duchess Anastasia]
Photographer: Bains News Service
http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggba...
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
[reproduction number, LC-DIG-ggbain-38336]

Music Credits
Namaste by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

Fortress Europe by Dan Bodan

Both Tracks from Youtube Audio Library

This video was not made in any official collaborative way with any of the image holders.

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