100 Year Old Color Photos of Russia

[JasonC]

Seen this on another site and thought i'd share it here.

Pictures:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/object.html

Here for story:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214585

[joshh]

I don't like the fact they are in color. Takes the age away from them. I didn't look at them all though....

[daniel]

wow, that is really eerie.

yesssssssssssss peasant girls

[aaron325ix]

thats pretty cool. makes history seem a little more tangible.

[Julien]

amazing

[wildstoats]

Simply incredible. Thanks a lot for posting this!

[Atreus]

if anyone wants all the pics, i have them in a zipped file

[straight6pwr]

amazing, thanks for posting.

I don't like the fact they are in color. Takes the age away from them. I didn't look at them all though....

you're kidding right? it puts LIFE into them. those are amazing quality for what year they were taken. you don't often get such a great look into times past.

[CorvallisBMW]

Very cool, thanks you for sharing

[SamE30e]

That's amazing. Definitely cool to see something like that come up so many years later.

[Jand3rson]

Those are so photoshopped.

Don't people know that the world didn't actually turn color until sometime in the mid-1930's? Idiots.

God damn, that's a lot of fucking blow:

[!kid]

they all look so unhappy

[Massive Lee]

This is an exceptional find. Thanks for sharing. I am literally flabergasted by the quality of the shots, and the color.

[FredK]

Those are so photoshopped.

Don't people know that the world didn't actually turn color until sometime in the mid-1930's? Idiots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky

[OldsCool]

they all look so unhappy

i heard or read somewhere, that it took back in the days about 5-15minutes to take a picture. so it was easier with a relaxed face than a smile on the face to wait that time.

still impressive pics