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Every demonstration photo on this site is a genuine public-domain, Public-Domain-Mark or CC0 work from Wikimedia Commons and cultural institutions. Each colour or restored result was produced by our own engine from the original listed below. We keep this page for provenance, transparency and to honour the institutions that preserved these images.

Colourised from black & white

32 photos

Genuine black-and-white photographs given natural, period-appropriate colour by our engine.

Faded colour, restored

14 photos

Faded colour photos and early autochromes with their true colours recovered and rebalanced.

  • Family group, 1974

    Jeanne Boleyn, 1974 · Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain

  • Throgmorton Avenue, London EC2, 1979

    beareye2010 / Mike Lidgley, 1979 · Flickr via Wikimedia Commons

    CC0 1.0

  • Snow-covered mountains, Mount Robson

    Tim Gouw, 2016 · Unsplash via Wikimedia Commons

    CC0 1.0

  • Alexanderstrasse (now Brīvības iela), Riga

    Unknown, 1912 · Vintage postcard via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain

  • Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, Bernese Oberland

    Detroit Publishing Co. (photochrom), 1890–1900 · Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain (US)

  • The Panthéon and rue Soufflot, Paris

    Photochrom Print Collection, c.1890–1900 · Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain (US)

  • Black Forest autochrome — Calw

    Unknown, 1910 · “Der Schwarzwald in Farbenphotographien” via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain

  • Autochrome self-portrait

    Alfred Stieglitz, 1907 · National Gallery of Art via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain

  • Landscape in Madeira

    Sarah Angelina Acland, c.1910 · History of Science Museum, Oxford via Wikimedia Commons

    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Wheelwright, Kentucky — town street

    U.S. Farm Security / Office of War Information, 1940s · Library of Congress (FSA/OWI Kodachrome) via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain (US federal work)

  • General store interior

    U.S. Farm Security / Office of War Information, 1940s · Library of Congress (FSA/OWI Kodachrome) via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain (US federal work)

  • Santa Fe R.R. near Melrose, New Mexico

    Jack Delano, 1943 · FSA/OWI, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain (US federal work)

  • Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town

    Russell Lee, 1940 · FSA/OWI, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain (US federal work)

  • Filling station and garage, Pie Town

    Russell Lee, 1940 · FSA/OWI, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain (US federal work)

Damage repaired

5 photos

Torn, scratched and creased prints repaired — damage removed while faces and fine detail are protected.

Straightened & corrected

1 photo

Photos shot or scanned at an angle, straightened and perspective-corrected.

  • Church and grain elevators (scan-cleanup demos)

    Russell Lee & Jack Delano, 1940–1943 · FSA/OWI, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

    Public domain (US federal work)

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