stephanieNY

Boston.com posted an article the other day with some of these photographs.  They were taken by a Russian photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, in the early 20th century of people, architecture, industry, etc. of the Russian Empire.  That makes them 100 years old!!  Incredible.  The article describes the technique: "He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images."  

I can't get enough.  It's fascinating to look at these people without the filter of the photographic quality of the camera/film used at the time.  I like that the article pointed out that neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had happened at the time these were taken.

The Library of Congress has the entire collection here.

1910:

She was standing in this grassy knoll back in 1910 for this picture:

A steel truss bridge in 1910:

Ah-mazing: