Mario Unger, an Austrian photographer and digital artist, spent over 3000 hours colorizing and restoring old black and white photographs, essentially giving them new life.
Tattooed woman, CA, 1905
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Ella Fitzgerald in 1946, photography by William P. Gottlieb
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'Abbott and Costello Go to Mars', 1953
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Charlie Chaplin, 'The Pilgrim', 1923
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Antonio Ascari and Ugo Sivocci in an Alfa Romeo at the Targa Florio, 1922
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A powerhouse mechanic working on a steam pump, photography by Lewis Hine, 1920
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Left to right: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charley Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg, 1937
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Dizzy Gillespie, New York, 1947
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New York, Mulberry Street, CA, 1900
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Oscar Wilde, CA, 1880
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Weishaar, Winner of the 100-mile race, Norton, Kansas, October 22, 1914
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Taking the Christmas tree home, Chelsea, London, 1914
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Jack Brabham, Dutch Grand Prix, 1966
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Portrait of Louis Armstrong, sometime between 1938 and 1948, photography by William Paul Gottlieb
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East Side, New York City, Jewish Market, 1895
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2 NASA engineers testing a scale model of a Saturn I rocket in a wind tunnel in the 1960s