Everytime I see those, I have to remember how old they really are instead of assuming they are contemporary shots. I'm so trained to think "color photograph: after 1965".

It blew my mind looking at them. I first saw one that I thought was a lovely contemporary postcard shot, then saw it was from a hundred years ago. I think everyone's mind visualizes history in black and white because of the photographic record.

Stunning work from a guy in the infancy of a new medium.

they are just awesome

Jeez, just when I thought I was gonna have some free time tonight after I tossed the covers over Jr edition....

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/p?pp/prok:@field(NUMBER+prok)::SortBy=CALL

Those are some of the finest color photographs I've ever seen of that period and region.
So much intel, so little time. :/

I'm going to make a slideshow of these.

Thanks for finding all those others, Gmac!

Ha, don't forget to look at the hi-rez versions. Much larger view and better detail. Stuff in the background will make you wonder and give you a pretty good understanding of life there durring the spring/summer months.

Thanks for the wonderful link that has provided so much insight Donnah.

Unfortunately, in the remoter parts of Russia, a lot of this life ain't so bygone. I have a picture of myself from 1990 standing in front of a cabin just like that, weilding a scythe to cut hay for the goat. If it weren't for my blue jeans, you probably could not tell the difference between that photo and these.

My friend's grandmother still dressed like that, and she was old enough to remember Nicholas coming through her village in WWI.

Wow, those photos are stunning.

Trackback keeps nuking.

http://www.coalitionoftheswilling.net/archives/2006/05/long_time_ago_w.html