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100 year old photos

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solitaryman
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Found this on POTN, thought it was pretty damn cool.

"With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. 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. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948"

And my computer still won't let me link.. so here it is

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html
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1337
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clicky!
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nkmo.
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Damn, the quality on those is sick.
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1337
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oh my god those are incredible. I'm stunned
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ngates_EC
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wow, those really are incredible for the time. not only color, but great color and amazing clarity!
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Milksteak
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Those are amazing! It's really hard to wrap my mind around the fact that those are actually 100 years old, just because photos from back then were black and white. Very cool, good find OP.
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jeremy.g
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wow. those are stunning. and so interesting. op thank you so much for the find
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Holte
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It's kinda strange to realize that the earth in 1909 looked pretty much identical to the way it looks in 2010. If there were no people wearing dated clothing in those photos, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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J-Evs
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wow. so amazing

its weird to look at these because when i think of the world that far back black and white just comes into mind
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VT_scratch
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so epic. shit seems so outta place!
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MACAQUE
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Mind=Blown
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Elmo.
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wow

thats pretty amazing.... absolutly stunned
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SassySloth
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wow thats sick
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Jwalk
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those are incredible, they look like they were taken recently.
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steezemeister
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pretty cool indeed
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Scott0_robot0
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those are sooo sick.
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Low.End
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wow, those are incredible. too bad no one else was using that method to take photographs back then, it would be crazy to see more from different places in the world
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LIL_WAT
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Great find. Unbelievable stuff.
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Mooserz
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yeah, im sitting there going isnt this what russia looks like now?
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16candles
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unreal. those were unbelieveable

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Logey.
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the fuck?

i thought it was all black and white bacck then till someone came up with the color camera......... jk

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fsscott
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these are amazing
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miroz
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Holy shit. I couldn't have taken any of those.
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hue.
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i find these hard to comprehend, the quality is amazing, its hard to think that these are 100 years old
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MN_Nice
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This is amazing! I've always wanted to see old time photos with color. Is there technology that does this or is it just pretty much photoshopped?
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parkskier
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These were amazing.  Great find.  I think the clarity surprised me the most.
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cool.
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wow. thats extremely amazing. very, very impressive
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Lemuel
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Hahaha these are awesome pictures, but its funny because its hard to comprehend the world being in color back then when we are all used to seeing black and white photos.
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steep
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those are so awesome and such good qualilty it's so hard to believe that those are freaking 100 years old. It makes you wonder if truce had technology like us for that long and just hid it. anyways great find OP this shits awesomee!
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Ethan.G
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every single one of those pictures were sick, and the quality is amazing. definitely surprised, but cool to see color photos from back then
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Ben.
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did you not read the article.


he shot three different pictures with red green and blue filters and then combined the images afterward.
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MN_Nice
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No I didn't, sorry. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Bryan*
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these were sweet thank you for the share.
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Aenigma
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Well there was the autochrome process, but that was never really totally embraced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumière
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MADDECENT
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haha my thoughts exactly, at first I thought it must have been planned out and shot recently, because I always thought of earth back then in my mind as a place of very bland colors
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icantskiiFILM
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those are awesome! hear me through on this...if instead of taking these with the same exposure..if all they did was change the stop down 1/3 and up 1/3 then it would be an HDR? they were close!
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Ben.
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thankfully it took them almost 100 years to discover that gimmick
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Malcolm
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holy shit thats amazing
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basedjase
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Im blown away, in all aspects of them. Thanks for sharing this OP.
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LIL_WAT
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Hahaha me too.
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Ducky.
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You ever gonna get your post's or karma back?
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Cam.t
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pretty unique
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