Restored and Colorized Vintage Pictures: 45 Incredible Hand-Painting Photos of the Life in the U.S in the 1940s

   

These incredibly amazing photos were colorized by photographer Marie-Lou Chatel. “I’ve always been fascinated with the work of the great photographers of the 20th century. Yet, when I look at their photos, I wonder what they saw in color while taking the photograph.”

Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue on a rainy day, New York, March 1943

 

Homeless man at The Bowery at night, New York, Sept. 1942
 
Girl sitting alone in the Sea Grill, a bar and restaurant waiting for a pickup, Washington D.C, Apr. 1943

 

Listening to a murder mystery on the radio in a boarding house room, Washington D.C, Jan. 1943

 

Grand Central Terminal, New York City, Oct. 1941
 
Sideshow at the cicus, Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 1942

 

Grand Central Terminal, New York City, Oct. 1941
 
Teenagers at a party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1947
 
Guests of Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, Jan. 1941
 
Time Square in a raining day, New York City, 1943

 

In the cafe at a truck drivers' service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue), Washington D.C, June 1940
 
Woman in the shower bath in a boarding house, Washington D.C, Jan. 1943

 

In town on a Saturday afternoon, Heard County, Georgia, 1941

 

 
Women at work, Indiana, 1940-45

 

Listening to the teacher's instructions in a physical education class at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, Oct. 1943

 

 
A windy day in Philadelphia, 1947

 

Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York, Dec. 1941

 

 
An administration clerk at the U.S. Office of Price, Washington, D.C, Jan. 1943

 

 
Men of the Quartermaster Truck Company of the 25th service group having a card game in one of the barracks, Greenville, South Carolina, July 1943

 

 
Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school, Washington, May 1942

 

Moccasins are worn without socks at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943

 

 
New Year's Day Bleeker Street on New York, Jan. 1943

 

Soldier in front of the Capitol theatre, Washington D.C, March 1943

 

 
South Side market, Chicago, Arpril 1941

 

Spectator in the National Gallery of Art on a Sunday afternoon, Washington D.C, March 1942
 
Storefront church and lunch wagon, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Apr. 1941

 

Sunday bench sitters in front of the Central Park Zoo restaurant, New York, Sept. 1942

 

 
Waiting for a train in the concourse of the Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 1943

 

Waiting for the trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station, New York, Aug. 1942

 

Watching a football game, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943
 
Woman with chili peppers, Concho, Arizona, Sept. 1940

 

Women gossiping in a drugstore over cokes, Washington D.C, March 1943

 

7th Street and Florida Avenue, Washington, Aug. 1942
 
1917 vintage trolley,  Baltimore, Maryland, Apr. 1943

 

A corporal in the army takes his girl to dinner, California, May 1942

 

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals, Sept. 1943
 
Soldiers and girsl saying goodbye at the Greyhound bus station, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sept. 1943

 

A student at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943

 

A woman and her dog in the Harlem section, New York, May 1943

 

Boys and girls, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941
 
Bus passenger enroute from Nashville to Memphis, March 1948

 

Children going home from school, Chillicothe, Ohio, Feb. 1940

 

Children playing, New York City, Dec. 1941

 

Chinese grocery store in Chinatown, New York, Aug. 1942
 
Farmer couple living in an old mansion in southern Greene County, Georgia, June 1941A