44 Old Color Photos Showing What The World Looked Like Many Years Ago
I don't know about you, Pandas, but I love period dramas. They're like a window into the past: we can see how people looked and lived like a 100 or even more years ago. However, they're often just interpretations of the past.
Why opt for how someone imagines what the world looked like when you have photographs that can show you? That's why we've put together a list of some of the oldest color photographs, so we can all marvel at the ingenuity of photography and feel closer to the history of places we now live in.
To know more about the processes of the fascinating history of color photography, Bored Panda reached out to Mark Osterman. He's a former photographic process historian for the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film who teaches workshops in early photographic processes from Niepce heliographs to gelatin emulsions. Osterman kindly agreed to take us behind the scenes of the makings of color photography.
#1 Irish Spinner And Spinning Wheel. Co. Galway, Ireland, 1890
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#2 Singers' Hall (Music Room), Neuschwanstein Castle, Upper Bavaria, Germany, 1886
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#3 Winter Garden, Nice, France, Ca. 1895
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#4 Christina In Red, 1913
Image credits: Mervyn O’Gorman
#5 Neuschwanstein, Upper Bavaria, Germany
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#6 "Osborne", Royal Yacht, Hmy Osborne II
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#7 Agra, Taj Mahal
Image credits: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress
#8 Photochrom Print By Photoglob Zürich, Between 1890 And 1900
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#9 A Photochrom Postcard Published By The Detroit Photographic Company
Image credits: Unknown author
#10 Tour Eiffel & Exposition Universelle, Paris, France, 1889
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#11 Promenade And Grand Salon, Trouville, Normandy, France, Ca. 1895
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#12 Oudezijds Kolk, Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands, Ca. 1901
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#13 Port Of Venice, Italy, Ca. 1889
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#14 Photo Family Hungary - Kapeller
Image credits: Madboy74
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#15 Stockholmsutställningen 1930 Villa
Image credits: Cronquist, Gustaf
#16 1937
Image credits: Thomas Neumann
#17 London, Kodachrome
Image credits: Chalmers Butterfield
#18 Oberammergau, Upper Bavaria, Germany
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#19 Townhall, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#20 Milksellers, Brussels
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#21 The Cathedral, Amsterdam, Holland
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#22 Mulberry Street, New York City
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#23 Panorama Of The Seven Bridges, Paris, Ca. 1895
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#24 Field Columbian Museum, Jackson Park, Chicago, 1901
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#25 Folgefonn Glacier, Hardanger Fjord, Norway, Ca. 1897
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#26 Luce Ben Aben, School Of Arab Embroidery, Algiers, Algeria, Ca. 1899
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#27 Cypresses And Road Leading To The Cemetery, Scutari, Constantinople, Turkey, Ca. 1895
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#28 Jack Delano: Chicago And Northwestern Railroad Locomotive Shop, Chicago, Illinois, 1942
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#29 View From The Hotel Fasano, Fasano, Lago Di Garda, Italy, Ca. 1895
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#30 Kungstradgarden, Stockholm, Sweden
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#31 Shelbourne Hotel. Dublin
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#32 Interior Of Corridors, Mission San Juan Capistrano
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#33 La Corniche, Marseille, France, Ca. 1895
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#34 East Face, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France, Ca. 1895
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#35 Fontainebleau Palace, Fontainebleau, France, Ca. 1897
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#36 The Coo Waterfalls Near Spa, Belgium, Ca. 1895
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#37 Roches Royal Hotel, Glengariff Harbor, Ireland, Ca. 1895
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#38 Jack Delano: Sideshow Barker At The State Fair, Rutland, Vermont, 1941
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#39 Arthur Rothstein: Boy Building A Model Airplane As Girl Watches, Fsa Camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#40 North German Lloyd Mail Steamer König Albert, First Class Dining Room, Ca. 1910
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#41 Early Color Photo Of Agen, France, By Louis Ducos Du Hauron, 1877. The Cathedral In The Scene Is The Cathédrale Saint-Caprais D'agen
Image credits: Louis Ducos du Hauron
#42 Fingal's Cave, Staffa, Scotland
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company
#43 Victoria Hotel, Unter Den Linden, Berlin, Ca. 1900
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
#44 The Colosseum, Rome, Italy, Ca. 1896
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
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