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Originally Posted by supernova1965
I really enjoyed them, though I was surprised about the colour images for some reason I expected black and white was colour just new or had it been around for awhile in 1942 sorry for the newb question.
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There was the Autochrome process available around 1903 or so I think, and then there was that Russian guy who did what we do, coloured filters to get RGB and then combined them later to get colour. These colour images are from 1908 onwards!
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ethnic.html
click on the photos to get larger versions, the entire exhibition is here:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/