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Title: Russia over 100 years a go in colour
Post by: Rods2 on 05 September 2013, 20:50:09

Taken by Sergei Mikhailovish Prokudin-Gorskii between 1909 and 1915. He used a 3 plate camera with RGB filters to create the colour.  :y :y :y

http://www.businessinsider.com/prokudin-gorskii-photos-of-russian-empire-2013-9# (http://www.businessinsider.com/prokudin-gorskii-photos-of-russian-empire-2013-9#)

There are also a couple of pictures of what is now Turkey.

Russia is usually portrayed as a largely agricultural country before the Bolshevik revolution, but in fact it was quite industrialized. In WWI the problem was not producing the equipment and munitions for war but their poor transport systems and lack of logistic skills in getting them to where they were needed.  :(

Title: Re: Russia over 100 years a go in colour
Post by: viper357 on 05 September 2013, 20:55:49

Cool, thanks for sharing

Title: Re: Russia over 100 years a go in colour
Post by: Varche on 05 September 2013, 22:18:33

Yep, interesting. :y

Title: Re: Russia over 100 years a go in colour
Post by: Jusme on 05 September 2013, 23:10:43

Excellent results for the time, most likely taken with a Miethe-Bermpohl camera. The photo of the old bloke standing on a raft, shows the obvious moving of colour filters in the movements of the water. But tremendous results for that time, and very labour intensive to produce.  :y

Title: Re: Russia over 100 years a go in colour
Post by: Rods2 on 05 September 2013, 23:20:17

And here is the complete collection at the Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok)