Famous faces from the past have been brought to life for the 21st Century in fascinating colourised photographs.
Experts have painstakingly transformed black and white images from around the world for the book, Retrographic: History in Colour.
They include Maud Wagner, America’s first professional female tattoo artist, in 1907, boxer Muhammad Ali meeting the Beatles in Miami Beach in February 1964 and Adolf Hitler announcing to a packed Reichstag that Germany is declaring war on America on December 11, 1941.
Photos also show such famous faces as astronaut Neil Armstrong, pictured ahead of the Apollo 11 mission which would make him the first man to walk on the moon, and Grigori Rasputin, the infamous early 1900s Russian monk.
Native American warriors, Japanese Geishas and American Civil War soldiers also feature in colour for the first time.
Michael Carroll’s book, contains images from as far back as 1854, and over its 190 pages covers some of history’s biggest events, including the American Civil War, The First and Second World Wars, President Kennedy’s assassination and the Royal Coronation.
Famous faces from the past have been brought to life in fascinating new detail in a new book of colourised photographs. One image shows boxer Muhammad Ali meeting the Beatles in Miami Beach in February 1964
An author has painstakingly transformed black and white images from around the world for the book, Retrographic: History in Colour. They include this fascinating picture of Adolf Hitler announcing to a packed Reichstag in Berlin that Germany is declaring war on America on December 11, 1941
The fascinating collection includes this image of Maud Wagner, America’s first professional female tattoo artist, in 1907. Wagner was born in 1877 in Lyon County, Kansas and went on to become a circus performer, learning her tattoo trade from her husband
The photographs include this image of a one of the most famous traditional hostesses in Japan, geisha Geiko Tomeko. It is not clear when the original photo was taken
Colourisation has also brought a fascinating new perspective to this 1910 image of Grigori Rasputin, the infamous Russian ‘Mad Monk’, a mystic healer and confident to the Tsars of Russia, the Romanov family
The book also brings colour to this photo of Al Capone, following his arrest in April 1930. The famous American mobster, also known as Scarface, was later jailed for 11 years for tax evasion
This stunning image, from 1946, shows a performance by legendary US jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, who died in 1990, aged 66
This stunning picture shows a Native American warrior of the Cheyenne tribe, taken in about 1877. It was painstakingly transformed from black and white to appear in a new book showing colourised photos
Astronaut Neil Armstrong is pictured on July 16, 1969 ahead of the Apollo 11 mission which would make him the first man to walk on the moon
The book, called Retrographic: History in Colour, includes this colourised image of a sick migrant child in Washington, America in August 1939
Michael Carroll’s book, contains images from as far back as 1854, and over its 190 pages covers some of history’s biggest events, including the American Civil War, The First and Second World Wars, President Kennedy’s assassination and the Royal Coronation. This picture shows US troops parading through the streets of a city in America, but it is not clear when it was taken
Second World War US pilots Frances Green Kari, Margaret Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborne Bross carry their parachutes as they walk away from their B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber, called Pistol Packin’ Mama, during training at Lockbourne Army Air Force base in Ohio in 1944
A group pf American soldiers work to free a plane during the Second World War at Isley Airfield, Saipan on the Northern Mariana Islands in 1944
Survivors of Ireland’s Great Famine are shown in this 1890 photo. The image was colourised by the author Michael Carroll
This picture shows Civil War soldier Private F.E. Brownell, a soldier and recipient of a Medal of Honor awarded in the American Civil War. He received the award for killing James W. Jackson after Jackson had shot Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, colonel of the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
This image of four Japanese students wearing trousers at the turn of the century. The book’s author has painstakingly transformed black and white images from around the world for Retrographic: History in Colour
This colourised mugshot shows Herbert Ellis, a notorious Australian gangster who was arrested by police in Sydney in 1920. Ellis can be found in numerous police records from the 1910s to 1930s with crimes including home and shop burglary
Another colourised image shows Helen Keller, a deaf and blind American author, political activist, and lecturer sitting with her hand on a braille book as she smells a rose in 1904. Keller, who died in 1968, was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Her birthplace in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, is now a museum and sponsors an annual ‘Helen Keller Day’
The book includes this 1907 image of Olive Oatman, who received her facial tattoos after being captured by Yavapi Native Americans when she was 13. The tribe raised her as their own, and her facial tattoos caused a stir when she returned to civilisation when she was 19
American John Meintz was tarred and feathered by a mob in 1918 on the border between Minnesota and South Dakota for not supporting war bond drives during the First World War