Color photos - hundred years ago

notareal

Photos of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)

d12dozr

Here in Big Picture too. Absolutely amazing when you think about how long ago these were taken....before WW1!

massimo

Great images.

pilou

Great find!

notareal

btw full resolution "original" can be find at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&c=100&co=prok

pilou

The technic
Absolutly tricky

Marian

These are amazing. It's incredible to think you could have had such quality a hundred years ago.The best pictures from the collection look like they were made in 2010 not 1910 and worst look 20 to 40 years old, it's still spectacular.
Now I wish all old photos could have looked like this.

dale

Wow. These are a real treat. Thanks for the post.

olishea

its funny how you see people wearing the old clothes....you just expect a black and white image, like with the man stood on the boat.....I can "see" it in black and white but the colour is strangely unsettling....does that make sense?? Thanks for posting, great stuff. the composite images just look like colour channels in photoshop!