DAILY MAIL : CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS COLORIZED by Alex Greig
British colorist Jordan Lloyd, 27, met fellow colorist Mads Madsen, 19, from Denmark when he started posting on Madsen's subreddit 'Colorized History'...
If you haven't seen this series of American Civil War Photos that have been colorized, you've got to check this link. Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Mark Twain, General Custer... so many others.
I notice that when I see black and white photos I tend to think of the times they were taken in as very long ago. There is a distance there. When I saw film and photographs that had been taken in color of the World War II era, I realized that wasn't so long ago. The feeling is the same here.