Jefferson Davis. Circa 1886. At Atlanta, Georgia. By Columbus W. Motes.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by the English photographer Herbert Rose Barraud. Carbon print on card mount. Year: 1893.

Rajendra Prasad, Former President of the Republic of India. This image was signed by Rajendra Prasad and sent to Walter Nash (former New Zealand PM) in 1958.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1879. Photographed by Constantin Shapiro.

Portrait of Edvard Grieg. Year: 1890 to 1907. By: H. Abel.

Portrait of Gustave Flaubert. Year: 1870-1880. By Nadar.

Portrait of general Robert E. Lee, officer of the Confederate Army. Between 1860- 1870.

Albumen photograph of Charles Dickens, circa 1860s, seated in an armchair and looking to his left.

John Quincy Adams. Circa 1840. By Southworth and Hawes studio.

Gustave Flaubert, circa 1860. Portrait by Étienne Carjat

Portrait of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran. Possibly created circa 1917.

A portrait of Richard Strauss. Year: Circa 1900 - 1920. Gelatin silver print.

Portrait of Rudyard Kipling. Year: c1895-1900. By Elliot and Fry. Publisher: Bain News Service.

Taken at the famous Herstmonceux castle which is now home to the Royal Greenwich Observatory and a campus of Queen's university Ontario.

This is my attempt at selective colourisation.

Early work for "Improve your image! Be seen with a doll!" series, experimenting with colourisation and halftone texturing using digital techniques. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock films and transgender idenitity

Early work for "Improve your image! Be seen with a doll!" series, experimenting with colourisation and halftone texturing using digital techniques. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock films and transgender idenitity

A portrait of Knut Hamsun. Date: 7 August 1936. By Anders Beer Wilse.

Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi. 1861, Naples. Face partially upscaled. The other similar version has the original face.

A portrait of Henri-Louis Bergson. Year: 1927. By Bain News Service, publisher.

Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Year: 1861 - 1870. By Fratelli Bernieri.

1924 - Native Americans. STUNNING images of the indigenous Native Americans have been brought back to life through vivid colourisation. The remarkable pictures show the group during the 1920s, with some of the leaders meeting with then American president, Calvin Coolidge, at the White House. Other fascinating images show the native tribe mixing with the public, the group, draped in their traditional attire, standing on top of the Lincoln Memorial holding the American flag high, and two Native American elders meeting with politicians at the Capitol Hill in 1936, the same year the Aborigines Act Amendment Act was legislated. Royston Leonard / mediadrumworld.com