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.”
(Restored and colorized by © Marie-Lou Chatel)
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| Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue on a rainy day, New York, March 1943 |
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| Homeless man at The Bowery at night, New York, Sept. 1942 |
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| Girl sitting alone in the Sea Grill, a bar and restaurant waiting for a pickup, Washington D.C, Apr. 1943 |
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| Listening to a murder mystery on the radio in a boarding house room, Washington D.C, Jan. 1943 |
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| Grand Central Terminal, New York City, Oct. 1941 |
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| Sideshow at the cicus, Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 1942 |
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| Grand Central Terminal, New York City, Oct. 1941 |
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| Teenagers at a party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1947 |
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| Guests of Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, Jan. 1941 |
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| Time Square in a raining day, New York City, 1943 |
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| In the cafe at a truck drivers' service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue), Washington D.C, June 1940 |
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| Woman in the shower bath in a boarding house, Washington D.C, Jan. 1943 |
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| In town on a Saturday afternoon, Heard County, Georgia, 1941 |
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| Women at work, Indiana, 1940-45 |
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| Listening to the teacher's instructions in a physical education class at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, Oct. 1943 |
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| A windy day in Philadelphia, 1947 |
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| Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York, Dec. 1941 |
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| An administration clerk at the U.S. Office of Price, Washington, D.C, Jan. 1943 |
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| 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 |
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| Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school, Washington, May 1942 |
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| Moccasins are worn without socks at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943 |
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| New Year's Day Bleeker Street on New York, Jan. 1943 |
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| Soldier in front of the Capitol theatre, Washington D.C, March 1943 |
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| South Side market, Chicago, Arpril 1941 |
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| Spectator in the National Gallery of Art on a Sunday afternoon, Washington D.C, March 1942 |
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| Storefront church and lunch wagon, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Apr. 1941 |
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| Sunday bench sitters in front of the Central Park Zoo restaurant, New York, Sept. 1942 |
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| Waiting for a train in the concourse of the Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 1943 |
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| Waiting for the trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station, New York, Aug. 1942 |
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| Watching a football game, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943 |
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| Woman with chili peppers, Concho, Arizona, Sept. 1940 |
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| Women gossiping in a drugstore over cokes, Washington D.C, March 1943 |
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| 7th Street and Florida Avenue, Washington, Aug. 1942 |
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| 1917 vintage trolley, Baltimore, Maryland, Apr. 1943 |
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| A corporal in the army takes his girl to dinner, California, May 1942 |
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| A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals, Sept. 1943 |
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| Soldiers and girsl saying goodbye at the Greyhound bus station, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sept. 1943 |
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| A student at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943 |
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| A woman and her dog in the Harlem section, New York, May 1943 |
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| Boys and girls, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941 |
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| Bus passenger enroute from Nashville to Memphis, March 1948 |
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| Children going home from school, Chillicothe, Ohio, Feb. 1940 |
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| Children playing, New York City, Dec. 1941 |
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| Chinese grocery store in Chinatown, New York, Aug. 1942 |
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| Farmer couple living in an old mansion in southern Greene County, Georgia, June 1941 |
(Restored and colorized by © Marie-Lou Chatel)
These photos are great! Thank you for posting. The windy day in Philadelphia picture was taken at Broad and Walnut Sts. The building in the background with the "1927" carved into the cornerstone is still there and that street corner is still a busy place.
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