Colorised images by Wendelin.
Black and white image of Wolf Robe (Image 2) is a charcoal drawing by Stephanie Campos. Thank you to Stephanie.
Colourised photographs of Native Americans
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“Stour Valley and Dedham Village” (1815/2010)
'Colour on the Thames', 1935
Portraits by F. Holland Day, 1895-1911
Colour photographs of a Cornish house, Monday 25th August 1913
'First colour video', 1958
Colour photographs of England, 1928
Colour photographs of a Square Dance, Oklahoma, 1940
“A Room to let in Old Aldgate”
A visit to London, 1957
Colour photographs of WWII W.A.V.E.S.
Victorian Husbands and Wives
Le Petit Journal, 1891-1893
The kitchen that time forgot
Victorians Smiling II
Colour photographs, WWI
Magazine First Covers
Photographs of men on horseback during the Crimean War, 1855, by Roger Fenton 
Ernst Haeckel's Christmas Cards
'A Switchback Railway' by R.W. Paul, 1898
Exotic Dancers, 1890s
The British Beehive, 1840/1867
Does anyone know how they do this? Is there a way of figuring out what colors are which or is it just an artists impression?
HoboCaddy – you might be thinking of this process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_dots
Black and white photos don’t contain such information to convert to colour, so unless there is another colour source available to work from, colourisations like these are generally done through intuition and imagination.
There’s probably information available as to which colours and materials were traditionally used by th respective tribe, and I assume that pieces of their traditional clothing have been preserved. So the artist could create a quite realistic impression if has has access to such information. But I don’t know whether this was the case here. Regardless of that, these image make those natives appear a lot more alive.
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My God, how I hate colorization. So much dignity, aparent in the original photographs, has simply been airbrushed away. Some things should be left totally alone.