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Early Color Photos of Russia

  • June 12, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii documented early 20th-century Russian life in thousands of color photographs. He employed a new process that used red, green, and blue filters to capture three separate images, which combined into one color image when seen with a projector using the same filters.

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