Who knew the world wasn't actually in black and white before 1945? Check out these beautiful examples of early color photography from as early as the 1930s.
I did read from somewhere else that before colour photography was inverted, photographer need to use multiple lens filter in order to get colour photos.
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| 1915: Austro-Hungarian POWs In Russia - By Prokudin-Gorskii. |
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| 1943: Rosie The Riveter - A worker operates a hand drill in Tennessee to apply rivets to an A-31 Vengeance dive bomber. By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1905: Tea Factory In Chavka - By Prokudin-Gorskii. |
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| 1912: Self Portrait Of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - By Prokudin-Gorskii. |
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| 1910: Study of Three Generations, Zlatoust - By Prokudin-Gorskii. |
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| 1909: Russian Peasant Women In Kirillov - By Prokudin-Gorskii. |
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| 1904: Sunni Muslim In Traditional Dress, Dagestan - By Prokudin-Gorskii. |
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| 1941: Students at Washington High School Training For The War Effort, Los Angeles - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1942: Barrage Balloon, South Carolina - A Kodachrome transparency. By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1942: Two Female Employees Of North American Aviation Assembling A P-51 Fighter Plane - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1942: Worker At The Douglas Aircraft Company Assembles A Navy Bomber - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1942: M3 Tank Training Exercises, Fort Knox, Kentucky - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1940: Homesteaders In Pie Town, New Mexico - By Russell Lee. |
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| 1940: Children Gathering Potatoes In Aroostook County, Maine - By Jack Delano. |
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| 1940: Children In The Tenement District, Brockton, Massachussetts - By Jack Delano. |
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| 1941: A Saturday Trip Into Town, Greene County, Georgia - By Jack Delano. |
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| 1941: Chopping Cotton On Rented Land, White Plains, Georgia - By Jack Delano. |
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| 1941: Barker At The State Fair, Rutland, Vermont - By Jack Delano. |
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| 1941: Vermont State Fair - By Jack Delano. |
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| 1939: Square Dancing, McIntosh, Oklahoma - By Russell Lee. |
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| 1939: Orchestra At A Square Dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma - By Russell Lee. |
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| 1940: Homesteaders In Pie Town, New Mexico - By Russell Lee. |
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| 1940: Homesteaders Eating Barbeque At The New Mexico Fair - By Russell Lee. |
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| 1942: Building A Model Airplane, Robstown, Texas - By Arthur Rothstein. |
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| 1942: Young Boy In Cincinnati - By John Vachon. |
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| 1940: Farm Security Administration Cooperative, Louisiana - By Marion Post Wolcott. |
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| 1940: Juke Joint, Melorse, Louisiana - By Marion Post Wolcott. |
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| 1940: Fish For Sale, Natchitoches, Lousiana - By Marion Post Wolcott. |
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| 1941: Children Aiming Sticks As Guns, Washington, D.C. - Photographer unknown. |
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| 1943: A Welder At The Rip Tracks, Chicago - By Jack Delano. |
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| 1942: Beecher Street School, Southington, Connecticut - By Fenno Jacobs. |
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| 1942: Servicing An A-20 Bomber, Langley Field, Virginia - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1942: M-4 Tank Crews, Fort Knox, Kentucky - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1943: Rural School Children, San Augustine County, Texas - By John Vachon. |
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| 1941: Shulman's Market, Union Street, Washington, D.C. - By Louise Rosskam. |
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| 1942: Assembly Worker At Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1911: Alim Khan, Emir Of Bukhara - By Prokudin-Gorskii. |
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| 1942: Army Test Pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1937: Woman In Flowered Hat (McCall Magazine Photo) - By Nickolas Muray. |
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| 1943: Girl In Rain (McCall Magazine Cover) - By Nickolas Muray. |
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| 1936: Boy With Cookies - Nickolas Muray. |
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| 1932: Ladies Home Journal, Swimsuit Layout - By Nickolas Muray. |
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| 1945: Whitman Chocolates, Easter Hat - By Nickolas Muray. |
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| 1936: Cream Of Wheat, Boys Playing Football - By Nickolas Muray. |
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| 1940: McCall Magazine, Homemaking Cover, Knitting Lesson - By Nickolas Muray. |
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| 1910: Woman Peeling Vegetables - From the George Eastman House collection. |
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| 1941: Ironing - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1942: Carpenter At Work On Douglas Dam, Tennessee - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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| 1940: Emmet Flynn On The Set Of “Arizona” - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1941: Pink Sun Suit On Promontory Rocks - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1941: Friends At Promontory Point - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1941: Ringling Brothers And Barnum And Bailey - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1941: Fulton Market, New York - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1942: Portable Soft Drink Stand, Bowling Green, New York - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1941: American Airlines Stewardess On Lake Michigan Shore - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1910: Monastery Of St. Nil, Stolobnyi Island - By Prokudin-Gorskii. |
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| 1939: McCall Homemaking Cover - By Nickolas Muray. |
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| 1938: Lambert Gardens, Portland, Oregon - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1939: Father Jurney, Miami Beach, Florida - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1938: Man At Letterbox - By Charles W. Cushman. |
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| 1943: Female Worker At the Vultee-Nashville, Tennessee, Assembles A Vultee “Vengeance” Dive Bomber - By Alfred T. Palmer. |
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