World History

RZM

(8,556 posts) Wed Dec 7, 2011, 11:55 PM Dec 2011

To start things off for the final preview, here's a classic

These are full color photos taken in the Russian Empire before the fall of the Tsarist government. Honestly, they have to be seen to believed. Well worth the time!

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/object.html

Here's one to whet your appetite. 'Peasant Girls, 1909':

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To start things off for the final preview, here's a classic (Original Post) RZM Dec 2011 OP

TY. Wonderful photo history. LiberalAndProud Dec 2011 #1

Neat! I can't get over those colors. Pithlet Dec 2011 #2

Fantastic. Thank you. WheelWalker Dec 2011 #3

Very interesting photos. Papillon Dec 2011 #4

These are great, I've also seen many videos made by Russians of their country. Stunning. freshwest Dec 2011 #5

The photographer was truly amazing....he developed this method for color photography Rowdyboy Dec 2011 #6

Did you notice the oil on the water in this picture: AnotherDreamWeaver Dec 2011 #7

I'd assumed that was just some light thing or whatnot RZM Dec 2011 #8

LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)

1. TY. Wonderful photo history.

Reply to RZM (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 12:04 AM

Dec 2011

I wish they were in slideshow format, but there are some terrific pics.

Pithlet

(25,089 posts)

2. Neat! I can't get over those colors.

Reply to RZM (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 12:06 AM

Dec 2011

Great pictures.

WheelWalker

(9,200 posts)

3. Fantastic. Thank you.

Reply to RZM (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 12:54 AM

Dec 2011

Blessings.

Papillon

(473 posts)

4. Very interesting photos.

Reply to RZM (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 12:57 AM

Dec 2011

Thanks for posting.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

5. These are great, I've also seen many videos made by Russians of their country. Stunning.

Reply to RZM (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 01:30 AM

Dec 2011

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)

6. The photographer was truly amazing....he developed this method for color photography

Reply to RZM (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 10:21 PM

Dec 2011

decades before it was "invented" officially.

AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,884 posts)

7. Did you notice the oil on the water in this picture:

Reply to RZM (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2011, 01:07 AM

Dec 2011

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Pinkhus Karlinskii. . . Supervisor of Chernigov Floodgate, 1909.
Digital color rendering.
Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ppmsc-03966) (16)

It's the second picture under Transportation.

RZM

(8,556 posts)

8. I'd assumed that was just some light thing or whatnot

Reply to AnotherDreamWeaver (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 9, 2011, 03:12 PM

Dec 2011

Didn't think that it might be oil.

But the picture is from what is now northern Ukraine. I don't believe that particular area is known for oil production, but Russia at the time had one of the fastest growing economies in the world, some say THE fastest. Like China today, environmental damage goes hand in hand with very fast growth, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's oil.

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