History Looks Even Better In Color (28 pics)
People crowd Mulberry Street in New York City in 1900.
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The streets were filled with vendors.
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A Union soldier guards a slave auction house in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864.
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The photo was taken by George N. Barnard, official army photographer for General William Tecumseh Sherman during the American Civil War.
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Gutzon Borglum and a superintendent inspect work on Mount Rushmore in 1932.
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The sculptures were originally supposed to go from head to waist.
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Wilbur Wright glides down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1902.
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The Wright Brothers would complete their first powered flight in December 1903.
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Officials ride in one of the penstock pipes of the soon-to-be-completed Hoover Dam in 1935.
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The Hoover Dam was completed in 1936.
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The Golden Gate Bridge is still under construction in 1934.
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Construction ended in 1937.
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The Eiffel Tower is in the middle of being built in 1888.
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Construction was completed in 1889.
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Workers are busy putting together the Statue of Liberty inside French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's workshop in Paris in 1882.
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The copper statue was dedicated in 1886.
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In 1881, the Tower Bridge in London doesn't connect quite yet.
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It was completed in 1894.
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In 1942, during World War II, the Taj Mahal is partly covered in bamboo scaffolding to disguise it from enemy bombers.
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In front of it, Private First Class John C. Byrom, Jr., of Waco, Texas, is trying to catch a goldfish in the marble-lined pool. Corporal Anthony J. Scopelliti and Private First Class Ray Cherry are watching him try.
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A Douglas SBD 'Dauntless' dive bomber balances on its nose after crash-landing on a carrier flight deck in 1943.
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The Scout Bomber Douglas was first used at Pearl Harbor.
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This photo shows the interior of a salvaged U-Boat after being sunk in the North Sea in 1918.
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The term U-Boat derives from unterseeboote, German submarines.
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A "Laplander" is photographed by Augustus Francis Sherman, the chief registry clerk at Ellis Island, in the 1900s.
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His photos were published in National Geographic in 1907.
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Photographer Arnold Genthe captures Chinese immigrants on the "Street of Gamblers" in San Francisco.
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Many photographs of Chinatown were destroyed after earthquakes and fires hit in 1906.
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