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mostly posting about history, plus whatever other interesting things I see up here. not very good at tumblr. 30 y/o.

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A color photograph of the parlor of the ocean liner Kaiser Wilhelm II as pictured around 1910.

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-color-photographs#18

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A color photograph taken of St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans around 1900.

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-color-photographs#30

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This damaged daguerreotype image taken in 1840 by astronomer John William Draper is said to be earliest photograph of the moon. Draper took the photograph

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_W_Draper-The_first_Moon_Photograph_1840.jpg

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The castle in Pembroke, Wales, as seen in an autochrome photograph taken around 1890-1900.

Source for this image: https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-color-photographs#24

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This daguerreotype photograph, said to be the earliest photograph of a solar eclipse, was taken by Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski on July 28, 1851, at the Royal Observatory in what was then Königsberg, Prussia and is now Kaliningrad, Russia.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1851_07_28_Berkowski.jpg

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Autochrome photograph of The Moulin Rouge in Paris, 1914.

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-color-photographs#20

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An autochrome photograph of a man driving an automobile from the Lanchester Motor Company in 1913.

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/autochrome-old-color-photos

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Autochrome photograph of Mark Twain taken by Alvin Langdon Coburn in 1908.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autochrome_of_Mark_Twain.jpg

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Autochrome photograph of photographer Frank Eugene, taken by Alfred Steiglitz in 1907.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene#/media/File:Frank_Eugene_1907_autochrome.png

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Autochrome photograph of two men playing chess in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1907.

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/autochrome-old-color-photos

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Two photos by Harry Pointer from the 1870s-1880s, from a series called "The Brighton Cats."

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A photograph of Omaha, Nebraska, during the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition 

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-color-photographs#6

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Glasgow Bridge, as photographed sometime around 1895.

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-color-photographs#41

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Comet Morehouse, as photographed in 1908.

Source: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/comet-morehouse-in-1908-us-naval-observatoryscience-photo-library.html

(I originally included the wrong source link in this post.)

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Some photographs of Victorian-era people smiling.

All are from this page: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/victorians-smiling-in-photos/

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The Mirror (1911) by Frank Markham Skipworth (English, 1854 – 1929), oil on canvas, 54.5 x 70 cm (21 1/4 x 27 1/2 in), Private Collection

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Memorial Arch in Hartford, Connecticut, as seen in a 1905 color photograph.

Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-color-photographs#45