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At first, these might look like yet another bunch of intriguing pictures, but its interesting how it is difficult to perceive these images as being a century old, just because they are in color.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

These extraordinary images from 1909-1912 are not colored in photoshop. The photographer clicked successive images with a black and white camera using red, green and blue filters, recombined them, and projected them with filtered lanterns to get true color effects!

The photographer was brilliant and was far ahead of his times. But it's interesting that even after these resources are described as being a hundred years old, the process of associating them to history is forced and does not come naturally to me. I've gone over these pictures a couple of times trying to find evidence that these might be new pictures and that the article might be bogus. It's amazing how one property of a resource can so drastically alter its perception and identity, taking precedence over its description. Found it relevant to resource identification, description and metadata issues we have been discussing in the lectures.