History in Photos: 20 Pictures from the Days of Old, Brought to Life With Color

Margaret Hamilton in 1969, standing next to listings of the software she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo project.

New Years Eve in Times Square, 1959.

American actress Anne Francis, 1950.

The Columbus, Georgia, Holiday Inn circa 1961.

VW - Grand Motor Show 1962, Uruguay.

Maryse Hilsz, French pilot, 1938.st

U.S. Marines watching an F4U Corsair napalming a Chinese position during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, December 6 1950.

A woman in St. Petersburg. Photo by Carl Bergamasco, 1870s.

WAAC's in France find German helmets useful substitutes for market bags. Two members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, France, during World War I.

Anna Swan, “The Nova Scotia Giantess,” shown here with the Lilliputian King. She was billed as the tallest woman in the world. Photo taken around 1870.

World Cup England, 1966. West Germany's Lothar Emmerich (L) leaves the pitch with USSR goalkeeper Lev Yashin (R) after the match.

1848: Very early photo of old London Town, High Street, Lambeth.

1958 Volga GAZ-21.

1923-1924: New Year's Eve film still with Marion Davies as Columbine in the movie Beauty's Worth.

Vladimir Arsenyev, Dersu Uzala, soldier Fokin and Zhang Bao, (from left to right), on a hike along the Takema River basin. Photo from the 1907 expedition.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Yalova, 1932.

Christmas shopping crowds on main street of Gadsden, Alabama. December 21st, 1940.

Lightning and Ford, 1947.