100 Year Old Russian Photos

[Pat]

"The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915."

http://casualphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/08/color-photography-of-russia.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CasualPhotographer+%28Casual+ Photographer%29

[jerryph]

Incredible, photos taken 50 years before I was around, and in colour to boot!

The entire collection can also be seen here:

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&c=100&co=prok