<story><title>Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris</title><url>http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diego_moita</author><text>These pictures are part of a huge collection assembled by the banker Albert Kahn: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(banker)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(banker)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other pictures (about 1200) from the Albert Kahn collection, from other parts of the world: &lt;a href=&quot;http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/archives-de-la-planete/mappemonde/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/archives-de-la-planete...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are some wonderful pictures in that collection. My preferred are the ones with people living in a way that doesn&apos;t exist anymore like the ones from the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Ireland, Benin and South East Asia.</text></comment>
<story><title>Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris</title><url>http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>micampe</author><text>Russian version: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The photographs were taken on three black and white plates with RGB filters in front of them, and could only be seen projected on a screen.&lt;p&gt;This is an article describing how the original images were composed to create the color version &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html&lt;/a&gt; this is about the russian guy, Prokudin-Gorskii, but the process he used to take the pictures was the same.&lt;p&gt;On the LOC website you can see the originals and composite &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/prk2000000200/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/prk2000000200/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>