25 Momentous Colorized Photos That Let You Relive American History

One of Reddit's more intriguing gifs to the internet has been a series of colorized photos that bring black-and-white memories back to life. This fourth of July week, we've decided to go through the archives and showcase a selection of the best retouched snapshots that shed light on significant -- and sometimes mundanely beautiful -- moments in American history. Behold:

1. This Harlem newsboy, originally captured by Gordon Parks


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2. Booker T. Washington in his Tuskegee University office, circa 1906


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3. These picnickers at a Sarasota trailer park in 1941


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4. These Armed troops blocking off a road near an explosion at an oil factory near Texas City, Texas on April 17, 1947


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5. Frank "Slivers" Oakley, the Baseball Clown, circa 1904


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6. This portrait of General Robert E. Lee a week after surrendering to General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War - April 16, 1865


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7. This photo of the Luna Park Promenade in Coney Island, New York, circa 1905


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8. Louis Armstrong practicing in a dressing room, circa 1946


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9. Boys buying flowers in Union Square, New York in 1908


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10. The Jersey Shore circa 1905


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11. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, circa 1935


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12. Women painting World War II propaganda posters in Port Washington, New York, on July 8, 1942


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13. A portrait of a family near Muskogee, Oklahoma during a drought in August of 1939


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14. "Cab Stand" in Madison Square Park, New York circa 1900


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15. Norman Rockwell entering his Stockbridge studio in Massachusetts in 1966


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16. A man flipping burgers in 1938


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17. Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939


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18. This portrait of comedian and singer Ernie Hare, expressing his thoughts on Prohibition, circa 1920


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19. This portrait of Hall-of-Famer John 'Muggsy' McGraw, the legendary manager of the N.Y. Giants from 1902 to 1932


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20. "An Oasis in the Badlands", Red Hawk of the Oglala Sioux on horseback, circa 1905


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21. College students pile into a Volkswagen Beetle circa 1965


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22. This snapshot of Old Orchard Beach, Maine in 1904


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23. This Tufts University baseball team studio portrait from 1890


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24. Elvis Presley meets secretly with President Nixon in 1970


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25. Buses leave in the shadow of the Washington Monument following the March On Washington in 1963


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