Laatste tijd ben ik gefascineerd door ingekleurde historische foto's. Hier een selectie. De geschiedenis lijkt daardoor ineens zoveel realistischer en dichterbij te komen.
Cpl. Carlton Chapman from Pembroke, Virginia, machine-gunner in an M4 Sherman of the 761st tank battalion near Nancy, France, on 5 November 1944.
Young woman sitting on a bench in Central Park, New York City photographed by Jim Hansen in 1946.
Pvt. James L. Poust with a mud-covered face after having carried wounded men over mired and muddy roads of eastern France on 13 November 1944.
A German Prisoner of War that was captured during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge (Part of the Third Battle of Ypres) photographed in
Passchendaele, Ypres Salient, Belgium on the 20 September 1917.
"We Are Russians" written on the front of a shop in the east end of London, England in 1915 so that they would not be mistakenly identified as German and attacked/robbed as a result of the anti-German sentiment in the country at the time.
The Steamboats Tashmoo and Idlewild docked in Detroit, Michigan, United States in 1901.
American troops on board a landing craft heading for the beaches at Oran in Algeria during Operation 'Torch' in November 1942.
26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, photographed at the age of 49 in 1907.
Tsar Nicholas II (centre) discussing military plans with General Alexeyev (right) and General Pustovoitenko (left) during World War I c. 1916.
H. Hillier shop front in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England in 1888.