Before Kodachrome

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The Commons Galleries: Early colour photographic processes in The Commons on Flickr – featuring Lú_’s curation

Applied colour, Southworth & Hawes, ca. 1850 … with additional colour provided by the effect of time on metal. Unidentified Woman
George Eastman House
Hand-tinted, ca. 1875 The Carandini ladies, one of Australia's first opera performing families, ca. 1875 / photographer Charles Hewitt (attributed)
State Library of New South Wales

Photochrom prints, also called Aäc, are ink-based images produced though “the direct photographic transfer of an original negative onto litho and chromographic printing plates.” – Library of Congress

[A girl of Voss, Hardanger Fjord, Norway] (LOC)
Library Of Congress
Hand-tinted, 1900 Paris Exposition: Salle des Fetes, Paris, France, 1900
Brooklyn Museum
Autochrome, ca. 1910

Autochrome is an additive color ’screen-plate’ process: the medium contains a glass plate, overlaying random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch, with lampblack filling the space between grains, and an impermeable black-and-white, panchromatic silver halide emulsion. – Wikipedia

Cowgirl
George Eastman House
Glass Paget plate phototransparency, Frank Hurley, 1915

The system used two glass plates, one of which was the colour screen plate while the other was a standard black-and-white negative plate. The colour screen plate comprised a series of red, green and blue filters, laid down in a regular pattern of lines to form a réseau, or matrix. – Wikipedia

The 'Endurance' under full sail, held up in the Weddell Sea, 1915 / by Frank Hurley
State Library of New South Wales
Tricolor Carbro process, Nickolas Muray, 1931 LADIES HOME JOURNAL
George Eastman House

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