First Color Photographs of China

Outside of the clothing, this picture looks as if it could have been taken yesterday, yet it is over 100 years old. The archives of Albert Kahn contain hundreds of thousands of photographs, 72,000 of them in color. Kahn used the pioneering Autochrome method of color. In 1912, he took pictures in China, which became the first photographic record of the country in color. See a half-dozen of the China pictures at Creative Roots and and some of Kahn’s photographs of Mongolia as well. -via Everlasting Blort


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Looks like blue was in fashion that year! These are probably that last photos taken in China of people doing their own thing and not making the 'V' sign for the camera like they all must do now.
That stone boat is still there, at the summer palace in Beijing.
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