[Octane (Humayun)]

Oh, yeah! The Prokudin-Gorskii stuff. That archive of images makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. Incredible stuff.

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Originally Posted by Poita

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/