Did you ever think that you could see color photographs from the early 20th century? Believe it or not, you can. Visit the Library of Congress online exhibition, The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated. These color photographs from Russia were made between about 1907 and 1915. The photographer used a special camera that created three glass negatives simultaneously. You guessed it, one each with a red, green and blue filter.
Here is just one example.
The Emir of Bukhara
The Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan (1880-1944), poses solemnly for his portrait, taken in 1911 shortly after his accession. As ruler of an autonomous city-state in Islamic Central Asia, the Emir presided over the internal affairs of his emirate as absolute monarch, although since the mid-1800s Bukhara had been a vassal state of the Russian Empire. With the establishment of Soviet power in Bukhara in 1920, the Emir fled to Afghanistan where he died in 1944.
Neat site.
For a year or so, I used the View of the Nilova Monastery as my screen background. Note the slight color fringes in the clouds and the water caused by movement between exposures of the various color images.
~Steve