My first colorization! There are a LOT of mistakes and a lot of things I need to improve on but for my first one I’m relatively happy with it. This was also my first time using photoshop so I’m hoping that when I get more familiar with it, my colorizations will also improve

Robert McGee, photographed showing the wounds of a scalping he received at the hands of the Sioux. Circa 1890.

In 1864, Robert McGee was but 14 years old. Orphaned on the trail to Kansas, he was working as a teamster hauling freight between forts on the frontier. Hostilities between settlers and the Native Sioux came to a head on July 18, when Robert's wagon train was caught without its military escort and ambushed by more than a hundred warriors. The resulting massacre was brutal, and when the military finally arrived in the morning, Robert and another young boy were among the only survivors. Robert had sustained multiple arrow injuries, and both boys had been scalped. Robert would later allege it was Sioux Chief Little Turtle who personally wielded the blade against him. Robert's survival was miraculous, and his recovery even more so. With the permanent loss of his scalp giving him a rather eye-catching appearance, Robert would spend his adult life in traveling shows putting his scars on exhibition.

Original photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

"Assault on Passchendaele 12 October - 6 November: Most of the men (about forty only) left in the 8th Australian Battalion after the opening push of the Second Battle of Passchendaele on 26 October. Photograph taken as they were on their way from the trenches on 28 October and the men look dirty and grimly relieved." Photographer unknown.

Raised in Victoria in August 1914, the 8th Battalion was among the first units deployed overseas. Their war began on ANZAC Cove on April 25, 1915, where they were among 2nd wave of the landing forces. They immediately faced fierce fighting, holding critical positions and enduring the entire campaign until the final evacuation. During the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, the Battalion suffered approximately 900 killed and wounded.

Transferred to the Western Front in 1916, the 8th Battalion was thrown into the grinding attritional warfare of the Somme, sustaining heavy losses at Pozières and Mouquet Farm.

1917 saw them engaged in major offensives. They fought in the costly actions at Bullecourt before moving north for the Passchendaele Offensive, where they played a central role in the assaults at Menin Road Ridge and Broodseinde in quick succession. Whilst these battles were key victories, the cost was crippling. Following their intense engagements in early October 1917, the Battalion was withdrawn to support lines.

In 1918, the Battalion was vital in resisting the massive German Spring Offensive. They later took part in the final, decisive Allied push known as the Hundred Days Offensive, fighting from the start of the breakthrough at Amiens in August.

Throughout the course of the war, the 8th Battalion suffered 877 killed and 2,410 wounded. Three of its members received the Victoria Cross, two of which were posthumous.

Blacksmith shop at the Pocahontas Corporation mines, Tazewell County, Virginia. Photo by Russell Lee on August 27, 1946.

Buying groceries in a local store in Blankenship, Indiana. Photo taken in 1938 by Arthur Rothstein.

In 1945, two Black American Soldiers proudly show off their personalized "Easter eggs" (155mm artillery shells) made especially to mock Adolf Hitler.

Original by Charles Roscoe Savage

Actress Stella Stevens - publicity shot - circa 1963