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Undertoad · 03-29-2015, 10:40 AM

Today Mashable features a set of colour photographs of Britain 1928.

Back in the day, IotD was one of the first places to highlight the Prokudin-Gorskii color photographs that appeared, of Russia from 1907-1915. So these shots are not as historically striking, appearing in color... but still interesting.

They used the Autochrome process here; we are not used to seeing much in color until after Kodachrome came about in 1935.

And the most British of the shots, pageantry of Britannia and her four knights. There are still four today.

03-29-2015, 10:40 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	March 29, 2015: Britain 1928 in color Today Mashable features a set of colour photographs of Britain 1928. Back in the day, IotD was one of the first places to highlight the Prokudin-Gorskii color photographs that appeared, of Russia from 1907-1915. So these shots are not as historically striking, appearing in color... but still interesting. They used the Autochrome process here; we are not used to seeing much in color until after Kodachrome came about in 1935. And the most British of the shots, pageantry of Britannia and her four knights. There are still four today. Many more at Mashable