A selection of interesting and unusual photographs from the USA (21 photos)

I present to you a selection of colorized photographs from the United States—a living portal to the 20th century. These images come to life in color, revealing authentic details of American life, everyday life, and everyday life. Enjoy!





Washington, D.C., circa 1901.



A girl rubs her eyes while sitting on the steps of her house after a long day at work. Biloxi, Mississippi, 1911.





Photographer: Lewis Hine

Young Olga Schubert (5) – tired, with reddened eyes that she rubs with her palms every now and then. She spent the whole day hard at work, peeling shrimp in a canning factory, like thousands of children in America of that era, whose childhoods were spent in sweat and fatigue for a few cents a day. Child labor was only abolished in 1938.

Maids with a child. Mississippi, USA, 1940.



Children of the Griffin. Alabama, USA, 1936.



The "Children of the Griffin" are participants in a land development demonstration project in western Alabama, near Greensboro. They are all believed to be third- or fourth-generation descendants of a union between a white woman and an African-American man. Most of them are light-skinned and therefore reject life in black communities, but white society does not accept them either.

Japanese people strolling against a backdrop of cherry blossoms. Washington, D.C., 1932.



A longshoreman at the Fulton Fish Market holds a giant claw and a lobster. USA, 1943.



Photographer: Gordon Parks

A man leans on a fence next to a field of grazing cows to admire the view of the Blue Ridge Parkway among the mountains in Doughton Park, North Carolina, circa 1930.



American scientist James Stuckey and volunteer Judy Creeden demonstrate the human body's ability to conduct electricity during a lecture in New York City organized by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1966.



Farmer's sons wash dishes after dinner. Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1939.



Photographer: Russell Lee

Philadelphia, circa 1905.



Skier in Sun Valley. Idaho, USA, 1945.



Ballerina Gillian Brodie dances on a farm. Here she performs on a milk can, 1959.



Cable car, San Francisco, 1946.



Photographer: Fred Lyon

Straightening hair with an iron, 1964.



Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, 1986.



Photographer: Philip Jones Griffiths

Model Patricia Shield as a lifeguard, 1940.



Children play on a swing in the Pacific Northwest. USA, 1939.



Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Coney Island, New York, 1964.



Central Park. New York, 1942.



View of South Street, New York City, 1933.



Photographer: Samuel H. Gotch