Life in Early Color Photography

While Levi Hill supposedly invented color photography in the 1850s, it was the Lumiere brothers who devised the first commercially viable photographic process. Here's a collection of interesting color photographs in the early 20th century.

Women under a tree, c. 1915.

A woman and boy in a chair, c. 1915.

A woman and flowers, c. 1915.

Children and teachers, c. 1910.

A woman in red dress, c. 1915.

Silver Lake,1907-1932.

Women with a Happy Easter/Buy Kodak sign, c. 1917.

Seneca pool, 1924.

A woman in a greenhouse, c.1910.

A girl with dolls, c. 1910.

The Palace of Horticulture at the Pan American Exposition in San Francisco, 1915.

A woman on a rock in a garden, c. 1910-15.

A man and his dogs, c. 1915.

Foolish House at the Ontario Beach Park, 1910.

Letchworth State Park, New York, c. 1915.

An urban outdoor market, c. 1910.

A woman in costume, c. 1915.

A row of young women, 1907-1932.

A popular beach, c. 1915.

A baby, c. 1915.

Swimmers at Fine View, 1907-1932.

A young couple, c. 1920.

Charles Zoller with his bicycle, c. 1920.

Sisters, c. 1909, Killara, Australia.

A nurse and child, c. 1907-1932, by Charles C. Zoller.

Nurses and "Uncle Sam" at a WWI support parade, US, c. 1917, by Charles C. Zoller.

Family group, c. 1915.

Native American man, c. 1910, by Mrs. Benjamin F. Russell.

Woman in a throne, c. 1915.

Arnett YMCA, USA, 1907-1932.

Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, c. 1930.

Louis Lumiere, of the Lumiere brothers, inventors, film innovators, and creators of the autochrome itself. c. 1910.

Woman with a crazy pinecone-feather hat, c. 1910.

Street and castle view, Foix, France, c. 1903, by Eugene Trutat.