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Some of the world's most iconic and legendary photos were taken during a period in time when image color processing wasn't available. 

Historic black and white images made a lasting impact on the world and stood the test of time.

Now, thanks to the digital process of colorization, these photos from famed photographers and more can now be seen in color.

Take a trip back in time through history by seeing these iconic black and white images transformed into color photos.

Famed photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic 1945 image of a sailor kissing a nurse on 'V-J Day' in Times Square.

American photographer and photojournalist Eddie Adams took the photo above of a Vietcong Guerrilla being executed in 1968  during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.

Photographer Alexander Gardner took the last living photograph of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

The image above shows a group of men inside one of the Hoover Dam turbines in the early 1930s while it was being built.

Eric Arthur Blair used the pen name George Orwell as an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.

The photo above shows two men testing out a bulletproof vest on September 13, 1932 in Washington, D.C.

Photographer Ruth Orkin captured the image above of Albert Einstein at a Princeton University luncheon in 1953.

The image above captured by Joe Rosenthal shows U.S. Marines raising the American flag during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (above) who is better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was a famed American author and humorist. Above he is photographed relaxing in a garden.

During the Great Ohio River Flood of 1937, the above photo captured by Margaret Bourke-White shows people lining up to seek food and clothing from a Kentucky relief station.

Photographer Dorothea Lange took the image above of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in 1936 in Nipomo, California. At the time, Lange was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state.

An unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife tot he bean harvest in August of 1939. The image captured by Dorothea Lange shows the Oregon man's arm tattoo of his Social Security number.

The photograph above shows the gentleman in uniform, Mauretania's first Chief Engineer, John Currie, and other gentlemen in 1909 at the Canada Dock, Liverpool.

Fashion photographer Toni Frissell captured the above image of a model floating in the water at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida. It was published in Harper's Bazaar in December 1947.

This image shows Salvador Dali with ocelot and cane photographed in 1965 by Roger Higgins.

Photographer Dorothea Lange snapped the image above of men at a country store in Gordonton, North Carolina in 1939.

Joseph Goebbels scowling at photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after finding out he’s Jewish, 1933

Quang Duc (above), a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. Malcolm Browne captured the image above in 1963.

Nikola Tesla, 1893

The photo above shows the a nuclear weapons test being conducted by the United States in 1946 at Bikin Atoll. Operation Crossroads became the first nuclear weapons to be donated since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.

Charlie Chaplin at the age of 27 in 1916

The above photograph shows Charles Robert Darwin, the English naturalist and geologist who is best known for his contributions to the theory of evolution.

Harry Houdini - 1912

An abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal in London 1945

King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway in 1888.

Hindenburg Disaster – May 6, 1937

Theodore Roosevelt

Al Capone’s soup kitchen during the Great Depression, Chicago, 1931

Winston Churchill

May 27, 1944 - Jewish women and children arriving at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in occupied Poland.

Outside the White Star Line offices in London, a newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of the disaster. (April 16, 1912)

Romanov sisters, Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana, 1910.

Some of the first American soldiers in Higgins Boats approach Omaha Beach near Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.